Biographical Quotes

"Once Ladd had acquired an unsmiling hardness, he was transformed from an extra to a phenomenon. Ladd`s calm slender ferocity make it clear that he was the first American actor to show the killer as a cold angel." - David Thomson ("A Biographical Dictionary of Film, " 1975)

Once that entered the piece, it ceased to be just a biographical look at a great world leader, and it became a thriller, ... It explores so many human questions about violence or peace, and what (New Yorker writer) Seymour Hersh calls `the Samson option,` because when Samson brought down the temple on the Philistines, he brought it down on himself -- it`s Israel`s feeling that if it goes down, it will not go down alone.

(On actress Kirsten Dunst playing her in a proposed biographical film): She`s a really sweet person. I`ve met with her a couple of times and hung out with her socially. She`s just a sweetie. She`s probably capable of a lot of things she hasn`t been asked to do yet, and doing something that`s sort of left of center would be great for her.

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.