Magnificent Obsession

“I do not have Sirk. This should be preserved. When I saw Imitation of Life for the first time, I was probably 12. Never having heard of melodrama, never heard of Sirk, but growing up in Memphis and knowing about racism, I wept. I should have known right then that my future was going to be told in a certain way.”

“Magnificent Obsession. Jane Wyman's blind acting now is hugely influential to me. Comedically influential. And I love Jane Wyman as an actress. It's not that it's good or bad actually, it's that it's very noble. It's like the noble blind.”