Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

Watching him and seeing all of the excitement and grasping the culture and the language. ... I could live through his eyes.

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

It [the movie] lost its excitement after people found out how hard it was to be an extra.

What has 'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' got in its favor? Quite a lot, from our point of view in 2009. If you want to see how Oz's creator envisioned his own work, here it is.

People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.