I'm Trying To Write Something

Are We Simply Waving Farewell To The Days When Some Of The Most Interesting Thinking In Europe And America Came To Us From Our Fiction Film-makers? Bbc2, Which Once Introduced And Showed Great Films, Now Shows None.

Sudden Resolutions, Like The Sudden Rise Of Mercury In A Barometer, Indicate Little Else Than The Variability Of The Weather.

The Great Mystery Of Adaptation Is That True Fidelity Can Only Be Achieved Through Lavish Promiscuity.

[via Dolorosa]'s Pushing Broadway As Far As It Can Be Pushed. I Stand Before You As A Reporter, And You Have To Decide Whether I'm An Honest Reporter Or Not. And If You're Convinced That I Am Honest, Then I Think That You Will Listen To Me In A Way That You Wouldn't Have Listened To A Fiction Where Scenes Are Made. . . . I've Thought Quite Long And Hard About What I Want To Say In This Play. And If It Means That Every Single Sentiment That I Produce Is Put Minutely Under An Ideological Microscope, That's Fine.

I'm Vey Bad At Marshaling Arguments. I Can't, At A Dinner Party, Explain Why I'm A Socialist And Why Others Should Be Socialists As Well.