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

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

Funniness is the wild card in the pack.

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

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.

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