A Face in the Crowd

“Oh, A Face in the Crowd. Yeah, Elia Kazan directed it. He’s an amazing director. But I love this. The woman who discovers this man, and then he turns out to be… She gives him fame, she opens these doors for him, and then he turns out to be not such a great guy. And that’s a tough position to be in. But definitely such an interesting story. I absolutely love this film.”

“This one, A Face in the Crowd. This is a movie by Elia Kazan and I have always thought that this would make a really incredible remake except for the fact that we're living it. And Patricia Neal is incredible in that and I believe it was Lee Remick's first movie.”

“These are great movies about media and show business. This is A Face in the Crowd that I'm talking about now with a very evil Andy Griffith, who plays Lonesome Rhodes, the drunk that Patricia Neal makes a monster by making him a star. It gets political, it gets kind of weird, and then he gets caught off-mic saying horrible things. It's a great examination of megalomania in media.”

“Here’s another reviled film, A Face in the Crowd. This is one of the great political satires, with one of the great villains, Lonesome Rhodes, played by Andy Griffith. If I could have cast Andy Griffith in Eddington, I would have. Also the way that he’s brought down in this movie is the same way that the Penguin is brought down in Batman Returns.”