People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.
Source: The Movies Make Heroes of Them All, 7 Jan 1968; in A Year in the Dark: A Year in the Life of a Film Critic, 1971.
-- Renata Adler, (Oct 19 1938-____), US journalist, writer; She was a staff writer-reporter forßThe New Yorker, and chiefßfilm criticßforßThe New York Times.