jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.
Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.
Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.
Great comedy calls large matters into question.
The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.
Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.