A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor - the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic; don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt