Memory Is The Personal Journalism Of The

A Great Novel Is Concerned Primarily With The Interior Lives Of Its Characters, As They Respond To The Inconvenient Narratives That Fate Imposes On Them. Movie Adaptations Of These Monumental Fictions Often Fail Because They Become Mere Exercises In Interior Decoration.

A Movie Star Is Not An Artist, He Is An Art Object.

That Common Cold Of The Male Psyche, Fear Of Commitment.

Divorced, Not Loving Their Abandoned Children As Much As They Loathe Their Former Wives, Directing A Combination Of Need And Hostility Toward The Women Who Drift In And Out Of Their New Lives, They Are, As [one Character] Puts It, "involved In A Variety Of Pharmaceutical Experiments.

He Who Does Not Like You Will Defame You In Jest.