the part that he has been waiting for. He's 38 years old. He's never led a movie successfully. When I say 'successfully,' I mean like to the point where it took root in the culture and became a fixture in the culture ... For all of the respect that he gets, it hasn't happened. And this is a role that required everything he absolutely had. This thing took a lot out of him. |
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply. |
The reason we made it a masked dance was simply because, well, it's a completely free thing, and by the time the unmasking comes, you've made a lot of new friends. And that was the point. |
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory. Other Voices, Other Rooms, 1948 |
This is the book I was always meant to write, |
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. |
Too Brief a Treat |
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. |
We're doing John first, and then bringing out Lee. |
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy. |
Well, of course, of course, |
Well, they just wished me goodbye. Perry said to me, `Goodbye. I love you and I always have.' ... I didn't love either one of them, but I had a great understanding for both of them, and for Perry I had a tremendous amount of sympathy. |
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely. |
When I think about how good my book could be, I can hardly breathe. |
When I think of how good my book can be, it scares me. |