Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.
In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.