Quotes

In spite of all our advances in technology we are, outside our narrow professional fields, mentally one of the laziest and most sheep-like ages that has ever existed.

[on the possibility of casting Charlotte Rampling in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) under Fred Zinnemann's direction] We went to see The Night Porter (1974) in Audley Square- Fred had it run so that we could see Charlotte Rampling. A very sick film; playing on female bondage and Nazi sadism--the others would have walked out, but I took a sort of natural interest in it, since so many values were being trotted out. The girl herself has a very striking face, slightly gaunt, with bruised eyes. I can grasp what Fred sees in her. But there is no evidence that she can act.

I think the common man is the curse of civilization, not its crowning glory.