As a four-times winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Federico Fellini bestrides the history of Italian cinema. Over the course of his career he created a body of work - "La Strada", "La Dolce Vita", "Roma" - that was distinctly his own. He called the cinema a circus, and stated that if he hadn't become a film maker he would have been a circus director. The free-ranging series of discussions in this book reach into the heart of Fellini's creative work and are illustrated with some of the drawings and sketches that were an essential part of his artistic process.