“The most important thing in art is the frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively—because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.”

“She walks in beauty, like the night”

“I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.”

“Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”

“The cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure.”