Anita Ekberg and D. W. Griffith

D. W. Griffith understood the potential of cinema to tell a story in a unique way, and he applied his new concepts to translating the novel, and later drama, to what he instinctively understood the screen to be capable of. Film, as he envisioned it, was something new, not something derived from something else. The proof of this is that since the advent of his movies, all forms of storytelling have been dramatically altered by cinematic techniques. -- Federico Fellini Fellini Amarcord Index