- The Journalist (segment "La ricotta"): I hope I'm not disturbing. I'm a journalist. I'd like to get a little interview.
- The 'Director' (segment "La ricotta"): No more than 4 questions.
- The Journalist (segment "La ricotta"): Thank you. First, what do you mean to express with this new work?
- The 'Director' (segment "La ricotta"): My intimate, profound archaic Catholicism.
- The Journalist (segment "La ricotta"): Second, what do you think of Italian society?
- The 'Director' (segment "La ricotta"): The most illiterate masses, and the most ignorant bourgeoisie in Europe.
- The Journalist (segment "La ricotta"): And third, what do you think of death?
- The 'Director' (segment "La ricotta"): As a Marxist, I never give it any thought.
- The Journalist (segment "La ricotta"): Fourth and last question: What do you think of our great director Federico Fellini?
- The 'Director' (segment "La ricotta"): He dances.
- Narrator: [segment "Il nuovo mondo"] The city hadn't changed, but Alexandra had. And I didn't know it yet.
- Narrator: [segment "Il nuovo mondo"] Little by little, I became jealous. Only now do I see how that stopped me from reasoning clearly. I ought to have understood that all this was only the consequence of the end of the world.