Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.

She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is on a mission to lose her virginity. That's a mission easily accomplished, if that's the only mission. The story had to be more complicated than that. Because there is so little happening dramatically, there had to be something to keep you curious.

When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.