A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
