Marlon Brando on Marilyn Monroe: Everything Ends

Interview with Marlon Brando

Conducted by James Grissom

By Telephone

1990

Some glorious things are simple things. People drive for miles to see a mountain. Others make trips to pull over and look at an acre of wild flowers. I can still have my breath taken away by a sunset. And certain words in certain patterns speak to your soul. Let's not complicate things. Let's not look for the summing up of things. Let's just feel the thing and honor it. Marilyn [Monroe] was a field of wild flowers, a gamboling puppy in the back yard, a pink sunset in June. She was glorious, and we had to look. Is that talent? I don't care. It was magical. And then it was gone. Is there a moral? Yes. Everything ends.

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