A Room with a View

“All right, Room with a View. Now I’m going to get emotional. I grew up in a cultural vacuum in a small town in Illinois... When Room with a View showed up, I was 15 or 16, and so I was just discovering romance in my own life, and this was just, like, the—I’ve never had a finer bottle of red wine than this movie. Daniel Day-Lewis is so goddamn funny in this movie, in, like, a pince-nez sort of spectacles. It’s just absolutely gorgeous. It’s so elegiac and romantic and turned me into an absolut...”

“Room with a View, which was one of the first—I worked for Merchant Ivory in my youth and it still holds up so amazingly well, that film. I saw it recently and Howard's End too. They're both really beautiful. They're much more kind of subversive than you end up thinking they are.”