I tried hard to meet her, but when I saw her in the street, I turned to a pillar of salt. |
In a sense those tests conveyed more of her personality than anything else we've seen. . . . You suddenly see what it must have been like just to sit next to her. |
rare actresses who was able to become the person she was playing and experience the emotions that that person was having. It was incredibly painful, almost psychic and quite devastating for her. |
She never gives a bad performance. There are one or two disappointing films, like Mata Hari, but it's still full of fabulous imagery. |
She was so completely herself. That was the woman Green knew and the woman the family knew. I wish I knew that woman. She seems glowing and humorous and down to earth. |
The family wanted us to put in that she wasn't lesbian. But nobody we spoke to was that definitive. . . . It's one of those things you can't be definitive about. All you can do is touch on it. |
The silent film was not only a vigorous popular art; it was a universal language - Esperanto for the eyes |
The silent film was not only a vigorous popular art; it was a universal language - Esperanto for the eyes |
There was Garbo coming home with her shopping from the supermarket. So we were turned into pillars of salt, ... she would have fled. |
They felt a lot of Garbo myths were wrong. It was unfair to her they hadn't been corrected. It would have been very interesting to do a documentary with the family alone. |