Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.

It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.

Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.