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“Tarkovsky, this is not my favorite Tarkovsky. I would say Stalker, what you call that in English, Stalker, is my favorite Tarkovsky movie, but he is a master. I've stolen many things from him, we all have.”
“Quadrophenia, this is the best, this is rock and roll and it's a great film.”
“And this is also great, I have this, but I just want to make a point that this is some absolute masterpiece by Nicholas Ray.”
“Insignificance, Nick Roeg. I'm actually going to have lunch with Nick Roeg in London in a couple of weeks.”
“This Alex Cox, come back, we all miss you. Please make more movies. We miss you, Alex Cox.”
“Oh this one, this is worth the whole day now, you have made my day. See this, Things to Come, William Cameron Menzies, master.”
“On the Waterfront. What's unique about... I had dinner with Elia Kazan when I was 24 and had just done my first movie. I asked Elia Kazan, 'So what advice would you give a young filmmaker?' and he said, 'My advice to you is do it your way.' Which of course had a specific meaning when I was 24, but I also understood that it would have the same meaning but a different way the older I got. It's been the only thing I can ever give myself because I realized that he was saying do it your way.”
