Matthew Modine

“This is an amazing movie stanley kubrick told me that when I was this age I should do a remake of this movie it's an Akira Kurosawa movie called High and Low with Toshiro Mifune and it's a story about a man who worked his way up from shoe factory making shoes to becoming an executive at the shoe company and then his child is kidnapped or so he thinks the kidnapper took the wrong child they kidnapped his butler his servant the person that works in his House they kidnapped the wrong child...”

“Where's tanner robert altman who I had the pleasure working with three times... This is amazing this Tanner '88 because what Robert Altman did was follow an Election that was taking place and the brilliant Michael Murphy he pretended to be a politician that was running for office I think it sometimes he actually felt that he really was running for office...”

“This is amazing this is black stallion this is directed by Carroll Ballard Carroll Ballard I had the pleasure of working on a movie that Francis Ford Coppola he produced this Francis Ford Coppola and he produced the movie that I made with him called Wind and Wind is about the America's Cup and I had the pleasure of working with the most amazing sailors in the world and it's a beautiful Carroll Ballard this is a beautiful movie black stallion and Carroll Ballard is the best filmmaker...”

“Here's another film by my friend stanley kubrick who I worked with on Full Metal Jacket Dr. Strangelove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb stanley said that he told me that he wanted to make a movie that was a serious movie about the doomsday machine and about nuclear proliferation and nuclear warfare and the terrifying aspects of it but the more he did research the more he realized how stupid the entire thing was and that you couldn't make a serious movie about this...”

“Night of the Living Dead my father was a drive-in theater manager and I watched this movie in the projection booth of the drive-in it was called the Highland in Salt Lake City, Utah and I was much too young to have seen this film and it damaged my at least 10 years of my childhood of just being scared to death that these zombies were going to come out and start consuming my flesh...”

“Midnight Cowboy this played at my father's drive-in this is directed by John Schlesinger and Midnight Cowboy when it came out it was rated x and it played at my dad's driving so I told you we were living in utah and this movie the Mormons threw my dad and our family out of utah basically because of this movie...”

“Here's another robert altman title The Player that tim robbins was in with Greta Scacchi and an unbelievable cast of actors from show business that robert everybody wanted to work with robert altman because he was so cool and working on his sets that the freedom that he allowed actors to have the experience was just like not working on anybody else's movie...”