Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.

It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the left­overs, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the "holding" cells.

The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. "Darling," she instructed me, "would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.

I despise people who can't control themselves.

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.