David Thomson > Quotes

“Agee wrote “like someone who had not just viewed the movie but been in it — out with it, as if it were a girl; drinking with it; driving in the night with it.”
― David Thomson, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated

“The only real danger is flinching, seeming to notice your own nakedness. If you don’t flinch, you’re merely nude, which is a classically recognized form of beauty.”
― David Thomson, Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts