The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.

The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.

Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ~Shattered Reality

For me, I am a huge fan of Sofia Coppola and Lynn Shelton. I love Lena Dunham, like everybody else. I love Kathryn Bigelow.

There are not many good roles for women.

I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.

This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.