“It took me a while to accustom myself to the Texas way of life, but I regard the weeks as particularly well spent. In my desire to learn more about the character Jett Rink, I learned much about Texas and Texans. I’ve gotten to like the state and the people so much I’m apt to talk like a proud Texan even after Giant is completed.” —James Dean
“His face corresponds to a physiologically dominant type,blond hair, regular features. Further, the mobility of his expressions admirably translates the double nature of the adolescent face, still hesitating between childhood’s melancholy and the mask of the adult. The photogenic quality of this face, even more than that of Marlon Brando, is rich with all the in-determination of an ageless age, alternating scowls with astonishment, disarmed candor and playfulness with sudden hardness, resolution and rigors with collapse, chin on chest, unexpectedly smiling, fluttering his eyelashes, mingling ostentation and reserve, naive and gauche, i.e., always sincere, the face of James Dean is an ever changing landscape in which can be discerned the contradictions, uncertainties, and enthusiasm of the adolescent soul. It is understandable that this face should have become the insignia, that it is already imitated, especially in its most readily imitable features: hair and glance.” - Edgar Morin
