- Opening Titles: If these young friends of mine intend to use the crumbs, shavings, I hope they have the good sense to present them in the perspective they were intended. They were things to go in "Ginger and Fred", breaking the narration as a polemic to the indecent habit of gorging films with commercials. In preparing a film about television, these tiny tales were meant to be the cracks of a whip. I'd prepared them in excess: I couldn't use them all. I had completely forgotten about them. Now you've found them. Use me like an Etruscan tomb: pick and choose. Do your will: I entrust them to you. - Federico Fellini, on a table at the Canova Cafe. Rome, July 11, 1992.
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- Puppet: Midway in our life's journey I found myself in a dark wood, the right way being lost to me.
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- Man: Turn it off, it came out okay, didn't it?