Paul Dano

“One filmmaker that really kind of changed how I thought about film is Ozu and I just don't think I knew you could make films like he does that you could just put the camera somewhere, rely on the composition and the rhythm of it. His storytelling ends up transcending itself... He's one of like the great artists of the 20th century.”

“God I love this film, Make Way for Tomorrow. Such a beautiful American melodrama and the film that inspired Tokyo Story, I believe.”

“This Sporting Life, this is just an incredible Performance. I saw it a long time ago and I feel like when you get to see acting like that's really just sort of so wrong and it feels unstudied. I've got to see This Sporting Life again.”

“This filmmaker is super important to me, Edward Yang, and he is an incredible filmmaker and really one of my favorite films ever made is A Brighter Summer Day which is in here somewhere.”

“I just wanted to give a shout out to My Own Private Idaho. We saw this film projected about a month ago and I had never seen River Phoenix on the big screen. There was just like the scene by the fire when they're on the road and he kind of confesses to Keanu's character that he feels something for him.”

“This filmmaker is super important to me, Edward Yang... One of my favorite films ever made is A Brighter Summer Day which is in here somewhere and so much so that I reached out to Criterion and asked for a poster of A Brighter Summer Day so I can put it on my home. It's the only movie poster up in our apartment.”

“I want this, I've never seen this. I'm just gonna read what the special features are here. I just feel like this needs to be seen. I'm gonna take this Jacques Demy box set. I think this would be nice to share with my daughter.”