James Berardinelli, in his review of the film, argues against the dream or fantasy interpretation, stating :" Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader append the perfect conclusion to Taxi Driver.

:" Garner is indisputably the great originator, the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien, and in many respects better than Tolkien, because deeper and more truthful ... Any country except Britain would have long ago recognised his importance, and celebrated it with postage stamps and statues and street-names.

:" IMX is like fantasy football, but with rock stars.

:" Margaret and I have always tried to take fantasy literature in new directions.

:" Some years ago, I was working on a fantasy series called Death Gate with Margaret Weis.

:" Island of the Blue Dolphins, though it is based upon the true story of a girl who lived alone on a California island for eighteen years, came from the memory of my years at San Pedro and Dead Man's Island, when, with other boys my age, I voyaged out on summer mornings in search of adventure.

:" This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.

:" Well ... that's where Dana's adventure begins.

:" I joined for adventure.

:" Because he had besieged them, the Amathusians cut off Onesilos ’ head and brought it to Amathous, where they hung it above the gates.

:" The master ... came to the region of Pogesania, to that island which is in the middle of the Elbing river, in that place where the Elbing enters the Vistula Lagoon, and built there a fort, which he called by the name of the Elbing River, in the year of the incarnation of the Lord, 1237.

:" A hill there is ," answered she, " not far away from here, where elves have their haunt.

:" I call your own kind self to witness [...] the last pages of Heart of Darkness where the interview of the man and the girl locks in — as it were — the whole 30000 words of narrative description into one suggestive view of a whole phase of life and makes of that story something quite on another plane than an anecdote of a man who went mad in the Centre of Africa.

:" There should be an Afghanistan where every Afghan finds himself or herself happy.

:" And then, when Jesus had come to the river Jordan where John was baptizing, and when Jesus came down into the water, a fire was even kindled in the Jordan, and when He was rising up from the water, the Holy Spirit fluttered down upon Him in the form of a dove, as the < U > apostles have written </ U > about this very Christ of ours.

In The Revenge of Gaia ( 2006 ), where he puts forward the concept of sustainable retreat, Lovelock writes :" A television interviewer once asked me, ' But what about nuclear waste?

:" More than any other single factor or incident, Mojave Desert incident from Frémont's second expedition report is where the Kit Carson legend was born ..."

:" All I could see from where I stood

:" Oh, where are you coming from, soldier, gaunt soldier,

:" Good spirits will not live where there is dirt.

:" The expense of horse labour, from the increased value of the animal and the charge of his keeping, being an object of great importance, it is recommended that, upon all sizable farms, that is to say, where two hundred acres m², or upwards, of grain are sown, the machine should be worked by wind, unless where local circumstances afford the conveniency of water.

Against these scenes, the film's title cards express the film's anti-war message, concluding with the following comments :" Today, the great sorrowful eyes of this same Son of God gaze down upon blackened fields, where the mangled bodies of men are strewn as grains of wheat, upon flaming shattered hamlets and stricken firesides.

The reviewer gave particular praise to Hart's directorial skill :" The camera placement here, the simple yet effective symbolism, and the flair for spectacle as in the brilliantly handled mob scenes where all of Inceville goes up in smoke, the real ' feel ' of the old, dusty, unglamorised West, all should have earned Hart a reputation as one of the great directors.

The film publication Cineaste published a review of The Italian in March 2009, focusing on the film's depiction of the Italian-American immmigrant experience as a Darwinian jungle rather than a promised land paved with gold :" Against Horatio Alger expectations, The Italian is a story of failure suffused with a soft-focused, dappled nostalgia for the old country ... ' From sunny Italy to the New York ghetto ,' read the taglines on Paramount's original one-sheet, contrasting scenes of ' carefree Beppo at home ' in the serene canals of Old Italy with the mean streets of New York where ' to live your baby must have Pasteurized milk.

:" There Achaea, i. e. Greece is a land encircled by lofty mountains, rich in sheep and in pasture, where Prometheus, son of Iapetus, begat goodly Deucalion, who first founded cities and reared temples to the immortal gods, and first ruled over men.

:" And even this conquest Buddhism has been won by the Beloved of the Gods here and in all the borderlands, as far as six hundred yojanas ( 5, 400-9, 600 km ) away, where Antiochos, king of the Yavanas rules, and beyond this Antiochus four kings named Ptolemy, Antigonos, Magas and Alexander rule ,".

:" Then, when the messengers went home, having well wrought their errand, they found, in a certain cave, where a giantess sat: she called herself Thökk.

:" Genocide is in and of itself a national interest where we should act " and " we can say to the people of the world, whether you live in Africa, or Central Europe, or any other place, if somebody comes after innocent civilians and tries to kill them en masse because of their race, their ethnic background or their religion, and it's within our power to stop it, we will stop it.

:" She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps

:" Look at the time ," said he, " where has it gone?

:" Early records show the family ensconced in northern Italy in the 16th century where they fought on the side of the Reformation, fled to Holland, intermarried with Dutch burghers ' daughters, picked up the first names of the Low Countries, but retained the Italianate " Fonda ".

:" Michigan by one device or another has over the years created black school districts and white school districts, the task of equity is to provide a unitary system for the affected area where, as here, the State washes its hands of its own creations.

:" But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don ’ t understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks!

:" I should, perhaps, Madame, tell you a little more about myself.

:" Mr. Balfour, supposing I was to offer you Paris instead of London, would you take it?

:" Okay, now on the count of three, I want you all to yell nigger.

:" May your sons be as fine and as noble and good and honest as you were.

:" For you are a holy people to YHWH your God, and God has chosen you to be his treasured people from all the nations that are on the face of the earth.

:" Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me from all the peoples, for all the earth is mine " ().

:" And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.

:" You only have I singled out of all the families of the earth: therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.

:" We magnify you O Mother of the True Light and we glorify you O saint and Mother of God ( Theotokos ) for you have borne unto us the Saviour of the world.

:" When you deprogram people, you force them to think ... But I keep them off balance and this forces them to begin questioning, to open their minds.

# The Masked Man ( egkekalummenos ) paradox :" Do you know this masked man?

:" Some of you may ask, what is the good of working so hard merely to collect a few facts which will bring no pleasure except to a few long-haired professors who love to collect such things and will be of no use to anybody because only few specialists at best will be able to understand them?

:" One more word, I beseech you.

Vincent Canby of the New York Times was similarly unimpressed :" Though special-effects experts in Japan and around the world have vastly improved their craft in the last 30 years, you wouldn't know it from this film.

Johnny Green, head of music at MGM at the time, described him as follows :" Gene is easygoing as long as you know exactly what you are doing when you're working with him.