It rekindles the great Hollywood romances.

It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.

[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.

Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them.

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.

Jimmy Stewart lived for movies, fought for his country, and died for love. Now isn't that a wonderful life?

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.

If the United States is accommodating, the North Koreans become accommodating. If the United States is hostile, they become hostile.

The best songs are stories, and the best singers storytellers. Great singers can make you care about what they're feeling. You have a sense of knowing them.