""La stazione" was, in absolute terms, the first example of 'cinéma-vérité', many years ahead of the birth of this style." "This documentary was shot in 1 month, always at dawn, and it surprised, from life, the deep reality of Italy that has not changed:" "poor people sleeping in third class waiting rooms, southern Italians waiting for the train that take them to North to look for a job, and all the blank and secret life, of this beautiful and just inaugurated station." "It was live shot, recording lost voices who spoke in all dialects and all accents, with no narrative plot and without requiring the unconscious heroes of these cold mornings to take any attitude, stealing images, sounds, calls," "loneliness and the hope of poor impatient people to live:" "the camera didn't invent anything, it was just an attentive witness which accurately showed so much humility and so ungrateful destinies." "It's Roma Termini, a big modern station that we know many things." "It's a great body whose precise operation is managed by a big brain." "It's a place of meeting, traffic, exchanges." "Trains of all Italy and Europe converge there and the people who get off speak various languages and dialects." "Sometimes in such a confusion, it's difficult to move from one platform to another." "Words are inaudible." "People get lost." "It's also a place where we stop, where we rest." "And that we see people as they are:" "defenceless, tired and in any simplicity."