I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.
I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.