The Grifters

“The Grifters is… I can’t even speak. It was so fantastic. Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening, John Cusack. Seeing them from the side, seeing them from the front, seeing them from the back, it was… for me, as an artist, it just punched a bunch of holes in my body. And also to make characters like that so delicious and delightful and watchable. So thank you, Grifters.”

“I have to give a shout-out to a great and very, very underrated British director, Stephen Frears. Really one of our great craftsmen. And this is a film he made with John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, and Annette Bening: The Grifters. I think it’s based on a Jim Thompson novel or short story, and… who’s a great writer. Incredible. This, you’ve got to see this film for three sterling performances. You watch Annette Bening and you think, 'Oh my goodness me, what an actor.'”

“Just going to mention The Grifters, because you cannot make a crime film without thinking about Jim Thompson. This is a great film.”

“I’ll do The Grifters because I saw this much earlier than I should have seen it. It’s when I discovered Annette Bening, I think, and she was so dangerous and super raw and so hot. What a good cover, too, like the glasses, it says it all. But everybody’s brilliant in this. But I remember just thinking like, 'Ooh, that’s naughty.' So that would be, I guess, my final one.”