8½ (1963)

Claudia Cardinale: Claudia

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• Claudia : I don't understand. He meets a girl that can give him a new life and he pushes her away?

  Guido : Because he no longer believes in it.

  Claudia : Because he doesn't know how to love.

  Guido : Because it isn't true that a woman can change a man.

  Claudia : Because he doesn't know how to love.

  Guido : And above all because I don't feel like telling another pile of lies.

  Claudia : Because he doesn't know how to love.

• Guido : Could you walk out on everything and start all over again? Could you choose one single thing, and be faithful to it? Could you make it the one thing that gives your life meaning... just because you believe in it? Could you do that?"

  Claudia : I don't know... could you?"

  Guido : No, the character I'm thinking of couldn't. He wants to possess and devour everything. He can't pass anything up. He's afraid he'll miss something. He's drained.

  Claudia : That's how the film ends?

  Guido : No, that's how it begins. Then he meets a girl at the springs. She gives him water to heal him. She's beautiful... young, yet ancient... child, yet already a woman... authentic, complete. It's obvious that she could be his salvation.

  [Looks over at Claudia] 

  Guido : You'll wear white... with long hair, just as you do now.