“You don't yell at a sleepwalker—he may fall and break his neck. That's it: She was still sleepwalking along the giddy heights of a lost career.”Tagged: Sleepwalking, faded glory
“The whole place seemed to have been stricken with a kind of creeping paralysis—out of beat with the rest of the world, crumbling apart in slow motion.”Tagged: dlipidated, decrepit, faded glory
“Betty Schaefer: I've been hoping to run into you. Joe Gillis: What for? To recover that knife you stuck in my back?”Tagged: Betrayal, Backstabber
“The poor dope—he always wanted a pool. Well, in the end, he got himself a pool.”Tagged: dead, Swimming Pool, Irony
“[Joe is reading Norma's script] Sometimes it's interesting to see just how bad—bad writing can be. This promised to go the limit.”Tagged: faded glory, bad writing, Screenplay
“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.”Tagged: Cameras, Dreams
“Well, this is where you came in, back at that pool again, the one I always wanted. It's dawn now and they must have photographed me a thousand times. Then they got a couple of pruning hooks from the garden and fished me out... ever so gently. Funny, how gentle people get with you once you're dead.”Tagged: pool boy, dead
“Audiences don't know somebody sits down and writes a picture; they think the actors make it up as they go along.”Tagged: screenwriters, audiences, actors