The Breakfast Club

“And Molly. I mean, I was born in ’79. I’m a child of the ’80s. These John Hughes movies, holy moly, were they everything to me. But this movie is a masterpiece. And Anthony Michael Hall, oh my God, so vulnerable and so hilarious, and just a throbbing, beating heart, all of them. The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club.”

“The Breakfast Club. I don’t know why it spoke so deeply to me growing up in New York City, my school was nothing like this, but, for whatever reason, stayed with me, watched it a bunch of times. Now that I’ve been making movies, I realize that not only did it influence my storytelling, but just to see, like, “Wow, there’s a lot of bold choices.” Then once you find out Dede Allen is the editor on it, you realize, “Oh, it’s… very, very purposeful and working in this whole other level.”...”