La Règle du jeu

“Oh God, Rules of The Game. I picked the best film in the whole world.”

“Start with Renoir, Rules of The Game. This has my favorite line from all of cinema, probably, in it, which is—sounds simple, but I find very resonant, which is, “Everyone has their reasons.” I stole it. It’s in Gone Baby Gone also. Astonishing. An extraordinary filmmaker and humanist. And kind of the ability to create empathy and understand other people, I feel like he almost introduced into cinema.”

“Where's Rules of The Game?”

“The Rules of The Game, La Règle du jeu. I'm choosing this film because I haven't seen it maybe for 50 years 60 years and it was one of Bertolucci's very favorite films. He loved this film, he was talking about it all the time. Anyway I'm happy to have this, I'm very happy to have a very beautiful film by Jean Renoir.”

“I have to take this. This is like the if you want to learn how to make a movie about Rules of The Game. Renoir really has, you know, his father was a painter and he has a great sense of mise-en-scène and where to put the characters within the frame and it's a phenomenal—if you're talking about blocking and staging, this is a phenomenal film. It's the blocking reflects the emotions of the characters which is something that I think everyone kind of can appreciate and enjoy.”

“Oh well let's just, you know, in the interest of being like fully completing, let's take Rules of The Game, shall we? Right, it's one of those things, it's a film school thing, you know what I mean?”