Bringing Up Baby

“This is good, Bringing Up Baby. I love Katharine Hepburn and I love that moment she... She walks away and her skirt is up and she has, like, a little underwear out and it’s, like, amazing physical comedy. Yeah, and amazing dialogue, very fast-paced. So this is a favorite of mine.”

“I am going to start with this classic Bringing Up Baby by Howard Hawks, one of my all-time favorite movies. I used to write papers on this movie a lot when I was in film school and for people who've seen my films, particularly The Living End and Doom Generation... Living End is actually called an irresponsible movie by Gregg Araki because of this movie. There was some Robin Wood essay called The Lure of Irresponsibility that I read when I was in film school.”

“Bringing Up Baby. A great illustration of how men interact with women. Baby is a leopard that she brings with her everywhere she goes... And The Leopard represents femininity. And Cary Grant is just trying to figure out, how am I gonna deal with this woman? It's like a triple metaphor, basically. It's like a metaphor thrice removed. It's fucking insane that 86 years ago, they made a movie where a woman brings a tiger everywhere she goes.”