Great comedy calls large matters into question.

jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.

Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.