Quotes

The most exciting disclosure is the new and advanced construction pattern of those two projects on Third Avenue. They are to be not single, but 'double-deckers' - or two theatres - beneath one roof, one theatre above the other... The conception of an outright duplex theatre, or two complete facilities in one, is, indeed, the most original and dynamic conception advanced for movie-theatre construction since the great movie palaces came...and went: September 3rd, 1961. New York Times.

[on 'Bonnie and Clyde'] It is a piece of bald-faced slapstick that treats the hideous depredations of that sleazy, moronic pair as though they were as full of fun and frolic as the jazz-age cut-ups in 'Thoroughly Modern Millie'. Evidently,there are people, including some critics, who feel that the deliberately buffoonized picture achieves some sort of meaningful statement for the time in which we live.

[reviewing Eva (1962) in 1965] There's not much wonder that practically everybody who had anything to do with the making of this film was offering excuses and alibis when it opened in Europe in 1962. Mr. Losey said the producer ruined it by cutting. The rejoinder is: He didn't cut it enough.