La décadence est la grande minute où une civilisation devient exquise. - Jean Cocteau

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.

It is dangerous not to conform with people's image of us, because they do not readily retract their opinions.

I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.