I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.

I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic musical since Blue Angel.

The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.

Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.