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

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

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

Funniness is the wild card in the pack.

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

It [humor] inhabits the marginal.

[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it.