Norma Desmond: And I promise you I’ll never desert you again because after ‘Salome’ we’ll make another picture and another picture. You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!... All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.

Regarding Norma Desmond, the phrase that comes to mind is ‘scary beyond all reason.’ But even though she’s totally crazy and she tries to commit suicide and so on, she’s very, very strong. It’s admirable… but not in a way that you’d want to imitate.

This really wasn’t a romance.

I watched this with Casey.