Yeah, because it’s a mosaic. It has a dreamlike quality and I think Fellini was an influence on us, you know, La Dolce Vita and his other films. He was a master of that, and I was going for something that had a certain amount of reality, but also a certain sense of unreality as well. I mean, it’s a little like a dream, The Wanderers, because there’s so many different characters, so many different things happening, and then some of the scenes are, you know, very realistic, but others are kind of
Fellini was an influence on us, you know, La Dolce Vita and his other films. He was a master of that, and I was going for something that had a certain amount of reality, but also a certain sense of unreality as well.
— not explicitly named · Collider interview with Philip Kaufman (2017)
Films That Influenced The Wanderers