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The days of my youth, as I look back on them seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation car. In my sanitary relations with women I was practical, ironical and …

[...] Ingmar behaved appallingly with wives and children—he had five wives and at least nine children in addition to affairs with many of his stars. He took sexual advantage of actresses who longed to be in his films, because they believed he was so good. To read his autobiography, The Magic Lanter…

Daphne the misfit has a stranger joy. She is noticed by an addled millionaire, Osgood Fielding III, wonderfully played by Joe E. Brown. When the film reaches the breathless point of needing to end, Osgood has a motorboat to sweep everyone away. He regards Daphne by then as his significant other so …

[...] One principle in this book—and it has been of enormous influence in our lives as a whole—is that in watching pretense we acquire a deeper sense of our reality but a growing uncertainty over our psychic integrity. What else are movies for? We thought we were identifying with characters for fun…

We are being allowed to see something that ought to be forbidden. Instead, it captivates us. Movies are the industrialization of murder and orgy as regular human fantasies. There has always been a shadow of censorship or control, and it adds to the air of an illicit thrill coming our way. Though li…