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“That is where we found Jim Jarmusch. So let's get a Jarmusch film. Got to. All right, you want to talk about Dead Man? Go ahead. Our entire film Education initially came from the dollar bin at Dave's Video. The movies that people didn't watch, that included movies by Jim Jarmusch.”
“I would like to get the Touki Bouki one because I don't have that. This movie has inspired every movie we've ever made. Very much inspired Gasoline Rainbow and I wish that we were able to pull off the trick that Mambéty pulls off where the film just feels like it's floating and that's always an aspiration for us.”
“You got like the Les Blank box set. Oh, I mean, I already got that, so you're right, I'm good. I wore the T-shirt to the show. I'm that guy.”
“Our good buddies made this movie Time that totally fucked me up when I saw it. Lauren Domino who produced this... Time, this renewed my faith in cinema. Garrett and Lauren made something brilliant here.”
“They got the Dekalog one. The Dekalog, oh fuck yeah. Talk about it. That's the whole idea. It's a reference point for everything that we've ever done and we've still never made anything like it.”
“The Cameraman. I think more than any one specific film, Buster Keaton as an entity, as an experience. My daughter's most cutting critique of anything is, 'Well, it was good, but it's no Buster Keaton.' I'm going to take that for her.”
“And Close-Up, the greatest movie ever made. We'll end on that one. Have you seen this? Kiarostami. Godard even said it, he ended cinema by making this film. The understanding of what cinema is, we don't really need to keep going.”
“Grand Finale: Harlan County USA. Barbara Kopple. When Turner and I were first starting out, I think she was like the first famous person I ever met. She made Harlan County USA, one of my favorite movies of all time. I literally went up to her and I said that and then I walked out of the room and burst into tears. Anyway, all-timer of a film here.”
