writer
Aired 2012
“Amarcord, one of my favorite movies of all time. Just atmosphere, Fellini, coming of age, fascism, wonderful. It's one of my favorite films of all time, so glad to have it.”
“But Crumb, Terry Zwigoff's Crumb. I've seen this many times, it's one of the films I can see over and over and over again. It just, it's a great film, it's about San Francisco, it's about art and it's about lunacy.”
“Just look at the, what a great still. The children, you know, the seeing, I mean the eye, that is a marvelous still. Isn't that the way that Fanny and Alexander are looking around? Just also has the best fart scene I've ever seen in a film.”
“Battle of Algiers, well you know I use the music from this often as a temp track. And you know, but the vitality of Pontecorvo's film, I mean it's a unique film, it's a unique political film. But vitality is extraordinary. I can remember being in little theaters in Los Angeles and I saw it a number of times and there'd be revolutionaries photographing off the screen how to create a revolution literally because these were revolutionary times. This was the primer for a lot of people.”
“Wages of Fear, what can you say? One of, you know, not only the cinema of France, Yves Montand, some of the most tense nerve-wracking scenes I've ever seen, but really captures the post-war existentialist... It's an existentialist epic adventure.”
“Once at a screening down in Los Angeles, I came late and I walked into the screening room and I stepped on somebody's toe and I sat down next to him and just as the film was beginning somebody came in front of us and the man next to me said 'Hello Fritz' and Fritz Lang turned around and said 'Hello Jean' and I was sitting next to Jean Renoir with Fritz Lang sitting in front of me. They're great films, inspire me and all of us to get started.”
