In Oratory The Will Must Predominate.

The Orthodoxy Of America Is As Rigid As That Of Soviet Russia. There Is One Point Of View Allowed. If You Start A Conversation From Another Point Of View, The Words Dry In Your Mouth.

To Those Whose God Is Honor; Only Disgrace Is A Sin.

. . . It Is True That Language And Forward Movement In The Cinema Are Jolly Hard To Reconcile. It's A Very, Very, Difficult Thing To Do. . . . There Is Still A Place In The Cinema For Movies That Are Driven By The Human Face, And Not By Explosions And Cars And Guns And Action Sequences . . . There's Such A Thing As Action And Speed Within Thought Rather Than Within A Ceaseless Milkshake Of Images.

Weak Minds Sink Under Prosperity As Well As Adversity; But Strong And Deep Ones Have Two High Tides.

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.