Quotes
- "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?"
- "Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form."
- "It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist."
- "The line readings of Portman and Lloyd are often flat, or flat-out wrong."
- "Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space."
- "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."
- "By dint of dogged charisma, Brynner has identified himself with a role more than any other actor since Bela Lugosi hung up his fangs."
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