Quotes by Richard Corliss

• Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?
• Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.
• It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.
• Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.