"I consider that the greatest mission of the motion picture is first to make people happy, to bring more joy and cheer and wholesome goodwill in this world of ours. And God knows we need it."

                                    Thomas A. Edison, Inventor

    During the making of a film in 1920 with the great director D. W. Griffith, Lillian Gish remembers floating down a river on an ice floe in the middle of winter:

   "Mister Griffith kept shouting at me, 'Look at the camera! Look at the camera! But I couldn't, I had icicles on my eyelids."

    "And if only we arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust int he difficult, then what now appears to us the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience."

              Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet