Hollywood (TV Mini Series)

In the Beginning (1980)

Agnes de Mille: Self

Quotes 

• Agnes de Mille : The streets ran right into the foothills, and the foothills went straight up into the sagebrush, and you were in the wild, wild hills. Rattlesnakes and coyotes and the little wild deer that came down. The sagebrush in the rain. The eucalyptus in the rain. You see, the spring was such a marvelous thing there when the rains came. Then, in two weeks, what had been brown was suddenly all green. And the grass there is so strong with a virility somehow that is just exciting. And in the grass would be tangled the lupine, the poppies, the rohdea. And of them exquisite, and all of them just blooming wild in the gutter and in the open fields between your schoolhouse and the next house. Flowers everywhere. And up in the hills, just blowing, mariposa tulips, rohdea. I cannot tell you. We gathered them by the armful.