David Holzman's Diary (1967)

L.M. Kit Carson: David Holzman

Quotes 

• David Holzman : It was like rooms everything is so perfect, that everything is so perfect that they have to be kept, that because this random particular accidental state so meaningful, so, so touching, it's so touching, it's so beautiful.

• David Holzman : Truffaut said that in Singing in the Rain, Debbie Reynolds jumps over a couch and holds in her skirt as she does it, and this movement gives her away. Now the movement that Sandra just made and I just caught, she gives herself away. Now in each movement, she gives herself a little more away, to me.

• David Holzman : Sex is sex. I mean, between a man and a woman, it's never quite like what Norman Mailer writes.

• David Holzman : I got nothing to say, unless you want to talk about Vincent Minnelli.

• David Holzman : Eclair, I'm sorry. Nag, I'm sorry.

• David Holzman : Twenty-four times a second-truth. This is truth. It's gotta be true.

• David Holzman : You have made me do things, you haven't told me anything. I have, this is ridiculous. Why am I sitting here talking to two machines? You have made me do things, why?

• David Holzman : I thought that I'd get this stuff on celluloid and I could control it and rearrange it, until I could see what it meant. My life, on film, and I could understand, and I could see what was going on. And I could make the connections and see what I was going to do. That's not what happened.