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

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.

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

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.

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

She is a figure of legend and fairy tale, one to be taken seriously, or she might knock you off your feet with a quick whirl of the staff she carries everywhere.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

There's absolutely no point in beating yourself up. Focus on going forward.

I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.

If you don't like it, go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler.

Did your parents build knows you a swing facing a wall when you were a kid?

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.