Our revenues are down about 20 percent from prior years.

Ms. Basinger has so contaminated this child now that she doesn't even want to be with her father,

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.

In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.

Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl - a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig's tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.