"More venery. More love; more closeness; more sex and romance. Bring it back, no matter what, no matter how old we are. This fervent cry of ours has been certified by Simone de Beauvoir and Alice Munro and Laurence Olivier and any number of remarried or recoupled ancient classmates of ours. Laurence Olivier? I’m thinking of what he says somewhere in an interview: 'Inside, we’re all seventeen, with red lips.'"Read More
“That Beadle boy, Margaret and Donald’s oldest son,” said Ethel McLure “or, I guess, I think David is actually the older one. I can’t remember because they looked so alike. Anyway, he was just a delight. He had such good diction and you could really understand everything he was saying.”Read More
"...the eye is what makes a good film; both the eye of the filmmaker who envisions and manifests the film, and the eye of the spectator who watches the film, invests time, and innervates the experience, and--of course--the image that is placed between them."Read More
"When you watch one or two, you think 'Wow, these are really well made,' but then you watch a few more you realize they are almost all made the same way. Which is fine, but when you couple that with a story about some LA skater trying to find meaning in his life for 15,000th time, it gets a little boring..."Read More