When it came to portraying couples who never directly connected, the Newmans were the Olympic gold champions

Joanne Woodward’s Mrs. Bridge is one of the best performances ever given on film of a middle-aged woman.

Another superb movie about a mature marriage grounded in a fundamental lack of communication is Dodsworth, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel.

The true marriage movie involving in-laws and children is a story about how marriage is directly affected by external characters who impact the central relationship in various ways.

Movies endorsed unwanted ideas by putting them into story form and resolving them up there on the screen. The goal was, as always, identification, but also relief.

In-laws were often used as plot devices to drive a happy couple apart, to destroy marital love and trust.

Life is less a burden without an absolute quest for material possessions

There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.

I care not a jot for immortal life, but only for the taste of tea.

It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.

I tell everybody that I'm a quatre-sexual: I will do anything with anybody for a quarter.

With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift up the poor and the hungry.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.