We do what we can. The results are none of our business.

Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.

... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.

Love is all there's time for.

There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.

TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.