The Elephant Man

“This movie, The Elephant Man, by David Lynch, is the first and only time I ever saw my father cry. Movie about what it means to be a human being. And it’s heartbreaking and beautiful and… and it’s tied to a very personal memory for me. You know, it’s… That’s probably a good note to end on.”

“Oh wow, Elephant Man. Again, I don't mean to sound like I think film is all about acting, because I know it's not, but John Hurt in this movie—WTF, like how the hell do you do that with all of that on his face? I mean, that's just literally like somebody's soul. Like when they say every time you get your picture took it takes some of your soul, like this is the proof.”

“The Elephant Man is beautiful film and I know that he felt a great affinity with that character and John Hurt did an extraordinary job Anthony Hopkins I work with Anthony later on we did a movie called The Trial together and we spent three nights in Kutná Hora in Czechoslovakia at that time filming in this cold church and we basically do impersonations of actors... And then we would do David Lynch together so we'd be doing dueling Davids because he worked on this one...”