Shampoo

“I love Hal Ashby. I was so excited to work with him because of Shampoo. This film, with Warren Beatty and Julie Christie was like heaven in it. And, of course, Goldie’s always great. She’s divine. Also about Shampoo, because Hal Ashby loved to cut with music, because he was first an editor, and he was so extraordinary cutting music. And it’s the best soundtrack too. I love it. Just the ’70s, this time in LA, you know, places that… doesn’t even look– they don’t exist anymore.”

“You’ve seen Shampoo, I assume? No. You’ve never seen Shampoo? No. As a bald man, I just don’t want to... It was too painful. Hal Ashby movie. One of the best of all time. Now I’m sold. I’ll wear a wig and watch it.”

“Shampoo. I love this movie. Again, also has to do with the business, I guess. But LA really hasn’t changed. Like, at all. Los Angeles has not changed. Hollywood hasn’t changed. I mean, you have this and this, and you see how times change, but people don’t change. And I feel like this movie really represents that. And the three of them are just… their chemistry’s incredible. So, Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, and Julie Christie’s amazing.”

“Oh, this. Shampoo, which is just such a moment in time. They’re all so… attractive. And it’s funny. And it also is a sort of… again, there is a weirdly feminist bent to this, in that, you know, even though he’s this Lothario, no one wants him in the end. And it’s Hal Ashby, so… That is something that’s part of my growing up in watching movies.”

“Let's talk about Shampoo which oh my God what baby are you kidding? Hal Ashby directed this, written by the great Robert Towne.”

“Shampoo. I picked this right away. When Laura and I both went to Berkeley, there was one costume design class. One of our first assignments was to pick a Shakespeare play but then put it in a different context, and I remember that the idea that I had was to do it as if it was all characters in Shampoo, which was interesting because we did go on to do some costume design work with fashion designers. So I picked this movie.”

“Shampoo because everybody in the cast hit it out of the park.”

“Shampoo. As a single guy, I can relate to this movie a lot. In the book, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, there's a story about how Warren and Jack Nicholson were gonna send a kid to med school to be their own private doctor. It's one of my favorite anecdotes about, about Hollywood access and like a legit good idea.”

“Shampoo. Another great Hal Ashby, so I hear. I have not seen this one. I’ve got a lot of work to do. I’m going to be an old man by the time I’m educated in film, and then dead and unable to direct any more movies. But at least I’ll be smarter.”

“Shampoo, written by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty and directed by Hal Ashby. Robert Towne was on the staff of Mad Men in the last season or two seasons and I got to hang out with him. I asked him how long it took to shoot and he said 75 days, which is, you know, in modern filmmaking, that's a lot of days. At some point they laid over the Nixon Election over the story because Warren wanted this, he knew he had a moment and he knew he could make what he want. I love this movie.”

“This is Shampoo. Now, this is a classic ’70s comedy. Funny as hell. I find the women funnier than Warren Beatty, but that’s just me. Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, brilliant. Also, the great Jack Warden. I love Jack Warden.”