My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.
Interpretation
This quote expresses gratitude towards the audience for their support in storytelling.
Gloria Swanson is acknowledging that her career and the stories she tells in her films are made possible by the affection and dedication of the movie-going public. Without the audiences who appreciate art, filmmakers would have no platform to share their narratives, highlighting the symbiotic relationship between creators and viewers in the film industry.
In practice
When giving a speech at a film festival.
So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.
I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in their heads.
Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.
I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.
'Let the music play on' would be my legacy.
I've never let a rhinestone go unturned
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