Filmmaking has now reached the same stage as sex—it’s all technique an — Penelope Gilliatt

"People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean."

"Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity?" "Is it because they know theyre classical? With classical things the Lord finished the job. Ordinary ugly people know theyre deficient and they go on looking for the pieces."

"A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wits conjecture is to endanger the species."

"Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life."

"Russians have always been hugely concerned with ethics and hardly at all with conduct."

"Jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible."