Another extract from Peter Bogdanovich’s 2004 essay on Marilyn, featuring his interview with Arthur Miller:
“I, quite candidly, had to realize, as many have before me, that that (motion picture) business makes human relations almost impossible – especially if you’re a woman – it scars the soul.”
And Bogdanovich’s parting thoughts on MM:
“She is the most touching, strangely innocent – despite all the emphasis on sex – sacrifice to the twentieth-century art of cinematic mythology, with real people as gods and goddesses.”