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- Federico Fellini: The film should end here. In fact, it ends here, and I hear the words of an old producer of mine. "What? Without the faintest hope, or ray of sunshine? Give me a ray of sunshine" he would beg at the end of each film. A ray of sunshine? Well, let's try.
- Reporter: I don't like smoking or drinking.
- Marcello Mastroianni: But how about women?
- Reporter: Oh, yes, a lot, but...
- Federico Fellini: But? But what?
- Reporter: Frankly, what I like best is jerking off.
- Marcello Mastroianni: Ah. Good solution. An exercise in concentration that stimulates fantasy, and I'd say it develops a novelist's turn of mind. My experiences, for example, were like installment novels - always new characters who introduced other ones: "Meet my sister. This is my cousin."
- Vestal Virgin: This is chicory. Oh, sautéed with garlic and red pepper, it's to die!
- Japanese Reporter: He says it's bitter.
- Vestal Virgin: That's what makes it good. A nice kind of bitter. Like the Romans: they act tough, but they're sweethearts.
- Fascist Grape Picker: Companion, with fascist ardor we offer the golden fruit of our vineyards.
- Reporter: Has it been washed?