Scandal turned out to be addictive. Going forward, the movie-star discourse – the many levels of public conversation connected to famous people onscreen – was inextricable from what we all suspected the stars did when the cameras stopped rolling. That became the other movie, the shadow drama: the drinking, fornicating, homicidal ghost in the machine. For some it became the only movie that mattered, precisely because it was the one we weren"t supposed to see.
– Ty Burr, Gods Like Us
"I can allow myself to stray dangerously close to the truth, and all anyone will ever see is metaphors."
– Amélie Nothomb, Hygiene and the Assassin
