Daily dialogue — August 30, 2009
“I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest film. No lies whatsoever. I thought I had something so simple to say. Something useful to everybody. A film that could help bury forever all those dead things we carry within ourselves. Instead, I’m the one without the courage to bury anything at all. When did I go wrong? I really have nothing to say, but I want to say it all the same.”
— Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), 8 1/2 (1963), story by Federico Fellini & Ennio Flaiano, screenplay by Ennio Flaiano & Tullio Pinelli & Federico Fellini & Brunello Rondi