Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film..

jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything po….

It [humor] inhabits the marginal..

[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable ….

Great comedy calls large matters into question..

Funniness is the wild card in the pack..

A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species..

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean..

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees..

Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life..

Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling..

Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere..

Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the j….

The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets..