Not Since Chaplin (reprise)/I Can’t Make This Movie

[GUIDO]
Not since Charlie Chaplin has there ever been a film director like this
Guido Contini
Everything he does gets world attention
Whether it's a hit or a miss
Guido Contini

He writes the script...

I can't make this movie
There's no way that I'll complete it
I can't bear to see the cameras roll
Problem is, the subject
There's no pleasant way to treat it
Problem is, the author's lost control

How I wish it didn't have to be so
But we cut the losses starting now
Strike thе set and keep it for some side show
Tеll the cast and crew that they can all go

Find another genius
I can't be one or become one!
I can't even tell how I'd begin
Help, Luisa
Help me, help me, mama
Help me, someone!
Here's a place that I have never been

Guido out in space with no direction
Guido at a loss for what to say
Guido with no intervening actors
Guido at the mercy of detractors
Guido here with no one else but Guido
This
Day!