Grey Gardens

“Oh my gosh, Grey Gardens. I feel like she is such a fashion reference for me. I love the head wrappings and the jewelry, the fur coats. I love how she was still so glamorous. Even though she lived in squalor, she still was able to find little unique things to still make herself feel beautiful and glamorous. And I feel like she’s just a great example of the resilience of women. I feel like little Edie was definitely that. Also my aunt and my grandma were very much giving this vibe.”

“Grey Gardens, honestly truly an influence where you go, yes, like there's something amiss. However, should I wear underpants on my head? I've always been told I'm weird and I think I love anything where that's reflected and it's not me, you feel less alone.”

“This is one of my favorite films, Grey Gardens. But I have it so I'm not going to take it. But,, yeah, it's such a brilliant movie. And Laurie Rose, the DP that I've shot all my films with, and I will often watch Grey Gardens before making a movie, just to remind ourselves how to move the camera as if it's an inquiring eye.”

“Grey Gardens. The atmosphere of this film, of just the skulking around this decrepit ruin of a once beautiful home, kind of forgotten by time, forgotten by peers, forgotten by family and love and the world, and still holding on to this shred of glamor and class when everything else around you has kind of left. And the story of Little Edie. It’s kooky and it’s peculiar, but it is also so heartbreaking, and it’s just such a… such a tale unlike any other.”

“Grey Gardens, Maysles Brothers. One word: staunch. Happy Pride.”

“Okay Grey Gardens this is a perfect example of kind of where I grew up like these ladies remind me of women in my family not just with like the sort of new england northeast quality but also the family versus family and slight lovable insanity...”

“So, Grey Gardens, the Maysles. Couple Maysles. Salesman. These are two fantastic films, both of which we used as inspiration for a show I created with Fred Armisen and Bill Hader called Documentary Now! I wrote both of these, I had to watch them so many times to see if there was stuff I could find as inspiration. And you just– the humanity that they managed to get, the way that they are present, but not in a way that gets people to be anything other than their true selves.”