One Actor's View of Efforts Made for Other Reasons

. "I think, thanks to Art [he looks skyward], we give ourselves the permission to dream...because, otherwise, everything would be . . .too much . . . theoretical, and, I think, through the art of movies, paintiings, books, music [and the rest], we open the window, we open the room to really believe and trust in these failings." --from an interview with recently named Oscar-nominated actor, Javier Bardem, for his role in a Spanish-language film.