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To Catch a Thief (1955) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

For what it’s worth, I can’t remember ever having kissed another woman before. Gregory Peck as John Ballantyne in Spellbound (1945)

— Daphne du Maurier, from “I Will Never Be Young Again,” published c. 1932

Summertime (1955) Directed by David Lean

John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, at home in California, 1960’s / Sam Shaw

Because something has happened to us. But it doesn’t happen like that, in a day. It happens in a moment sometimes. I felt it this afternoon. It was like lightning striking. It strikes rarely. Spellbound (1945) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

This Property is Condemned (1966)

I’m sick? Well, take a look at yourself, old dear. You’re so hot to play mental health week, what about you? Talk about dream worlds. You’ve got a pathological fix on a woman who’s not only an admitted criminal but who screams if you come near her! So what about your dreams, daddy dear?

Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The Philadelphia Story (1940) dir. George Cukor

Audrey Hepburn in her screen test for Roman Holiday (1953)

Vanessa Redgrave photographed by Pete Turner on the set of the film ‘The Sea Gull’, 1968

Jude Law as Graham Simpkins in The Holiday (2006)

Atonement (2007)

Taken from the rooftop of Sam the Record Man. For me, having a camera in my hand at all times helped me remember: You only get to do this once.