The stage is three-dimensional, the movie multi-dimensional.... The stage play can create epic, for example, only by borrowing mov...ie methods. The movie, likewise, can debate ideas only by imitating the relative stasis of theater and, in pursuit of ideas or not, it unnaturally limits its prowess by containing action within one room or other closely confined area.... The imperative of movie motion makes any concession to the working principles of theater a retrograde act, for the form of a play must be violated in order to be converted; if this violation is shirked, the movie's integrity will be sacrificed for that of the play. One cannot possibly imagine a fluid movie adapted from a play by Moliere, Chekhov, Sternheim, or Pirandello, unless the original content were disastrously modified. Nor can the social dramas of Ibsen and the discursive comedies of Shaw profit from the movie medium. Their action, in the literal sense, is not going anywhere; their moods and theses can only be dissipated by a compulsively mobile camera.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the movie woman's world is designed to remind us that a woman may live in a mansion, an apartment, or a yurt, but it's all the... same thing because what she really lives in is the body of a woman, and that body is allowed to occupy space only according to the dictates of polite society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church-- I keep it, staying at Home--... With a Bobolink for a Chorister-- And an Orchard, for a Dome--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God preaches,--a noted clergyman,-- And the sermon is never long;... So instead of getting to heaven at last, I'm going all along!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I stopped reading movie magazines in the beauty parlor a couple of years ago because I could not accommodate any more information ...about something called the Lennon Sisters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times whe...n this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems, just now, To be happening so very fast;... Despite all the land left free For the first time I feel somehow That it isn't going to last....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a peopl...e. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing ... then it will be done, but not until then.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afrai...d she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »