Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!
Molly HaskellLanguage: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.
Molly HaskellAs so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.
Molly HaskellI would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.
Molly Haskell