1960

What is it, in essence, that Fellini doesn’t like? The poverty, the sloppiness, the coarseness, the awkward, almost anonymous pedantry with which I’ve shot the scene. Fine, I agree. It was my first experiment. For the first time in my life I found myself behind a movie camera, and this movie camera was all beat up, old, and could hold only a little film at a time. I was supposed to film an entire scene in a day. And the actors too were in front of a movie camera for the first time. What was I supposed to do, work a miracle? Yes, of course, Fellini had been expecting a miracle.