The Last Temptation of Christ

“Oh, ladies and gentlemen, you know this man. He's a little bit more than a man, or is he?”

“The last recommendation before I basically bring everything home here, it’s, for me, probably with The Age of Innocence, my favorite movie by Martin Scorsese: The Last Temptation of Christ, from the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis. It shows the dream of Christ, of Jesus Christ, of being human, and the impossibility of being so. And the way in which Scorsese portrays the miracles in this movie, it’s so powerful because basically he works with his tools, which is filming and editing. Masterpiece.”

“This is Last Temptation of Christ, which I don’t have on Blu-ray. I remember the hysteria that happened when this came out. I grew up in this evangelical household... It really is a real meditation on the actual what it cost Christ to make this sacrifice. And I just love it, and I love Willem in it, and it’s hard to beat Harvey Keitel as, like, a Judas from Brooklyn. 'Hey, Jesus! Come on, I got a deal for ya.'”