True Stories

“And look, here in the candy store, I found a film that I made in the mid-’80s, called True Stories. This is the star of the movie, John Goodman. Takes place in a small town in Texas. Influenced probably by many of those other films I’ve just talked about. But I’m going to put it back because I have this film. I have this copy at home.”

“True Stories. I love when a visual artist-slash-musician makes a film. This, I feel, is a very personal expression, and it looks like David Byrne sounds. And there are a couple videos that came out of here, like the video for the song “Wild Life” came out of here. That was one of the first things I saw on MTV, where I was… it kind of shaped my opinion of who I wanted to be around and what I wanted to do. I highly, highly recommend True Stories.”

“My next film is David Byrne's True Stories. I grew up in Texas. True story there's very few films that really capture kind of the banality and the beauty of rural Texas especially in that time frame. It kind of strikes that same chord as something like when you watch King of the Hill and you're like well you kind of got to be there gotta be from there to get the joke and this film really does a phenomenal job of that.”

“This movie because I got to work with the director and I was such a massive fan but this is also a kind of music movie unlike any I think at that point that I'd ever seen. I think it actually was my gateway to becoming obsessed with him. I was already into David Byrne. And I mean when I dance this is what I look to do.”

“Fantastic david byrne True Stories great music great movie I just the talking heads sort of started in my hometown I'm from providence rhode island... Now I love the talking heads and I have a little point of pride so I've been buying all this stuff and I bought this is fantastic and you know I've just saw david byrne play recently and he was great and I can't say enough good stuff...”