R.J. Gilmour's Reviews > Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies

Pugh looks at how film influenced Capote's work and how is work was transformed into films. It is a fascinating study not only of Capote's work but also the film adaptations of his works.

"As his partner Jack Dunphy explained, 'Truman had a way of telling half-truths and whole lies,' and Tennessee Williams while searching for a 'polite way of saying he does fabricate,' insightfully labeled Capote, not a liar, but a 'mythologist." 18

"With more insouciant flags, Capote also professed to David Frost (in a witticism often attributed to Dorothy Parker), "I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true." 41

"His trenchant musings on the shifting cultural meaning of time-"The Swiss manufacture it. The Italians squander it. The French hoard it. The Americans worship it. But time is a crook.."64

"A flower is blooming inside you, and soon, when all the tight petals unfold, when the bloom of youth burns brightest, you will turn back and look, as other have, at the opening of another door." 181. From Other Voices, Other Doors