8½

(1963)

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Guido: My Dears... Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

Guido: The truth is: I do not know... I seek... I have not yet found. Only with this in mind can I feel alive and look at you without shame.

Guido: Accept me as I am. Only then can we discover each other.

Guido: Hold it. Let me have a look at you. No, your makeup should be more.
Carla: ...more what?
Guido: Like a whore.

Writer: Only the early Fitzgerald was great, then came an orgy of brutal realism.

Guido: All the confusion of my life... has been a reflection of myself! Myself as I am, not as I'd like to be.

Writer: Why piece together the tatters of your life - the vague memories, the faces... the people you never knew how to love?

Guido: 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.

Luisa Anselmi: Don't explain. I didn't ask you anything. Just spare me the shame of hearing you swear to a mess of lies.

Audio problem: While Marcello Mastroianni is waiting at the station and Sandra Milo's train can be heard arriving off-screen, we hear much whistling by a steam train, but when it finally appears, the train is being hauled by a diesel locomotive. [As a side note/explanation - all sound in Italian movies, including the dialogue, is recorded afterwards, sometimes by different actors, eg. Claudia Cardinale in real life has a regional accent.]

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