Sullivan's Travels

“Oh, yeah. Sullivan’s Travels. So I was never, like, an old movie fan when I was a kid. My film-loving… perspective really came from The Godfather and Dog Day Afternoon, Panic in Needle Park. You know, those screwy ’70s… The French Connection. Those are the kind of movies that I cut my teeth on. Not as an actor, but as a filmgoer. But then, probably deep into my 20s, I started looking at old movies and discovered the movies of Preston Sturges, who I think is such an interesting director.”

“This is Sullivan’s Travels by Preston Sturges. He was a kind of preppy Yale man who became this genius at making people laugh. But there was always something more than just laughter in it. Joel McCrea was one of his favorite leading men. He is Preston Sturges’s alter ego, a man who wants to make great films, great, great, stirring films about great humanity and torment and trials and tribulations and triumph. But he, ultimately, because he subjects himself to trials and tribulations, he disco...”

“I'm gonna take Sullivan's Travels just because the cover is so awesome. Oh gee, that's I don't remember that one. Oh, you probably have some copies in that, don't you? Come on. Yeah, I'm thinking of buying something. Maybe you might want to take that. Would you would you like to say something about the front of it and the back of it or both of those sounds? Do you have a favorite side of it? You know what, staggering genius works whatever way you show it. Oh, so even like even like here, than...”

“This I've recommended Preston Sturges Sullivan's Travels just I really hope you people get to experience Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake in this movie it's just so joyous and it's so speaks of you know the human experience of wanting to be important and be counted forgetting the fact that you might also want to entertain...”

“Some of these travels. Everything by Preston Sturges.”

“This is easily one of the best most influential comedies of all time and it you know it's a about it's about comedy if you can see any Preston Sturges movies I think Criterion makes The Lady Eve also that's fantastic all of his movies were tremendously funny with rapid fire dialogue and just brilliant he used some of the same character actors in all the movies so he had like this little company of players and you love seeing them recur in the other movies...”