Stephen Galloway > Quotes

“She learned that the best writing used dialogue almost in counterpoint to the visuals, so that what was heard was different from what was seen; she found that a well-made scene could unfold over many pages, with a beginning, middle and end just like a self-contained story; and she observed that each of the best screenplays was driven by an underlying idea that the writer wanted to convey about life itself. It was this that touched her the most, because it meant films could have meaning and be just as effective in catalyzing change as her work in schools.”
― Stephen Galloway, Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker

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― Stephen Galloway, Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century

“Here, for the first time in half a century, Vivien beheld the Himalayas, the soaring mountains that had towered over the Darjeeling house where she was born in 1913. She was awed by what she saw, by the “peaks of blue white you think must be clouds,” as she told Merivale. And yet, this close to her childhood haunts, she chose not to go on to Darjeeling or Calcutta, the towns where she had been brought up and where she had spent her idyllic first years And so she never visited the homes Ernest and Gertrude had built; never viewed their summer villa in the shadow of Mount Kanchenjunga; never strolled through the Bengali estate that had been her parents’ pride and joy.”
― Stephen Galloway, Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century

“Analysis is about re-parenting yourself and relearning the habits of a lifetime.”
― Stephen Galloway, Leading Lady; Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker

“brain plays evil tricks on its inhabiting spirit. Slowly overwhelmed by the struggle, the intellect blurs into stupidity. All capacity for pleasure disappears, and despair maintains a merciless daily drumming. The smallest commonplace of domestic life, so amiable to the healthy mind, lacerates like a blade. Thus, mysteriously, in ways difficult to accept by those who have never suffered it, depression comes to resemble physical anguish.”
― Stephen Galloway, Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century