- [first lines]
- Self - Interviewee: My mother is Ingrid Bergman. She's a big Hollywood star in the 40s. And right after the war she went to Europe to entertain the troops. And when she stopped in Paris, she met Robert Capa - who had been the great photographer of Second World War. They met at the Ritz Hotel and they like each other immensely and, then, eventually they fell in love.
- Marilyn Monroe: Sometimes, you know, the work is so - even though you try to be true. And you - you feel sometimes on the verge of a kind of craziness; but, it isn't really craziness. It's really - getting the truest part of your self out. And it's very - hard, you know. I mean, it's not easy, let's say.
- Self - Interviewee: Great 'behind the scenes': it has nothing to do with the fictional world set up by the director. We see people, actors, cameramen, sound engineers, who do their work and that's what's fascinating. And their relation to actors. It's an artificial world. But at the same time, it's a real world.
- Self - Interviewee: I'm just collecting things. We're collecting machines. More or less skillfully or aesthetically, with more or less sensibility. Photographers are voyeurs with a capital V but with a sense of dignity. That's what we do.
- Self - Interviewee: [on James Dean] The people who raised him from the age of 9 to about 19 were his aunt and uncle and they welcomed me with open arms. They were just extraordinarily friendly and, until this day, I'm a close friend of the families. But, in the mix of being there, I could sense that Jimmy wasn't really ever going to return. And what it pointed up though is tragedy of Jimmy incapable of understanding what he had. He was just little alienated soul that bounced around in search of God knows what. One morning we got up and he said, "Come on, I wanna show you something." He walked into this furniture store, into another room, and in that other room were coffins. And he jumped into one. So, we went through all these childish expressions that he did within the coffin. And at the very end, sort of grabbed him and I said, "Now, sit still. Just look at me. Sit up and look at me." And within that image I would like to believe that it shows how lost he was. He lived a kind of contradictory life being on the cusp of being a star.
- Self - Interviewee: When you come on a set like that, it's not what you're looking for, it's what's in front of you and what's possible. See what's in front of you and try to make something out of it. It's not - rocket science.