Ben Sinclair

“Short Cuts, I watched Short Cuts. I do love Altman, I do love it. I remember watching Short Cuts while I was trying to stay together with my first love and it was our last Weekend together. I remember more about Short Cuts than I do about why I love that person so I think I made the right choice then. This is essentially High Maintenance, it's just short stories connected by an earthquake I guess is what connects everybody in this film. Thank you Short Cuts.”

“Have you guys seen Bad Timing? Whoa. So here's the story, I moved into this apartment... One of the only friends I made there was this guy, he was a total cinephile who made me watch Bad Timing with him alone in his House and then when Art Garfunkel [ __ ] the corpse I'm like oh my god this is a lot. And then it turned out that we all moved out but it was because one of the roommates pretended to be the landlord. That was great timing on her part.”

“We have Close-Up. So this movie, we use this chromatic aberration font for High Maintenance, I stole it from Close-Up. Also from Close-Up I stole a moment where there's a can rolling down a hill. It's just a moment where there's this can rolling down a hill and it's just like a little pause. I stole that moment directly from this film and put it in season 4 episode 6 of High Maintenance.”

“Somebody told me that Punch-Drunk Love, I heard a theory that it's actually the story of Superman.”

“You know Being John Malkovich, I look like John Malkovich. It's true. This movie rocked my world when I first saw it. If you read the original screenplay for it, it's much more bananas than the film was. I think they reached a nice middle ground with this film.”

“Michael Haneke, huh? Really puts people through it. This, I would be interested in going on a road trip with this person and not letting him go to the bathroom and being like, 'What does it feel like, Michael? What does it feel like when somebody is making you feel constrained like this?'”

“Old Joy, Kelly Reichardt. If John Malkovich and I were on a road trip together and Michael Haneke was in the back, that's a lot of different energies. I would like to make maybe like an Old Joy, which is a road trip movie. We will all give each other massages and an outdoor bathroom somewhere in northwest. Kelly, you make a good film. I'll take it.”

“I just want to copy The Princess Bride for myself just because look at that dude, look at this box. It's literally like a fairy book, this is incredible. Good work guys, whoever thought about this really was put in their thinking cap. I know it's not like the most esoteric choice, but I chose Close-Up so I get one for me, one for you.”

“Midnight Cowboy, I love this movie art. Look at that art, god damn it.”