An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
The End of the Affair is almost like a play.
People can be a bit flagrant when they're having an affair. Most of the time, there's an element of it where they want to be discovered because they're in crisis. They need the boil to be burst, in some way, for a resolution.
You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.
A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.
No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.