«But, almost twenty years later, the older artist additionally explained, ``... it was partly a title perversely ironic... Only later did I learn that in «English» «homely» means «homebody,» which also happens to be true of me... But at the time I named it I was referring to
the American idiomatic use of being «not beautiful,» not attractive... which I felt more about the picture than myself.»
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here is another one of the best
American movies, and in its own way, equally
idiomatic, evocative, and resourceful [as Force of Evil].