What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic. - Aldous Huxley

One unscrupulous distortion of the truth tends to beget other and opposite distortions.

"A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like "France" or "England," to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong."

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.