The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off. - Jean Cocteau

Die meisten Menschen leben in den Ruinen ihrer Gewohnheiten.

Paris, however — because of her purely fortuitous beauty, because of the old things which have become a part of her, because of her entanglement of buildings and tenements — Paris yields herself in discovery as an attic beloved in our childhood gave up its secrets.

The amazing advance public attention to this film is surely due not so much to us (I mean to the curiosity our undertaking arouses) as to that Beauty and Beast we thrilled over as children. Happily, there is some remnant of childhood in this jaded public. It is this childhood we must reach. It is the incredulous reserve of the adults that we must overcome.