George Washington

“George Washington is the second Criterion I ever own, which pretty much is just because I was in film school making shorts about young black people and I remember not realizing David Gordon Green was a white dude when I first saw the film. In my first film Medicine for Melancholy, we actually replicated that scene where people sitting around in a circle.”

“George Washington. The great David Gordon Green, who directed Pineapple Express. I remember watching this. We were trying to decide if he would be a good director for Pineapple Express, and then he crushed it. I love this.”

“George Washington, that was brill and that was your man's first film, that guy David Gordon Green. It captures youth and childhood and it makes you remember like when you were a kid and what that was like. Acting with children and directing children is really hard, you have to be really delicate... I remember that movie being brill.”