Richard E. Grant

“Jules and Jim, loved that. I met Jeanne Moreau shortly before she died in Paris. She was just smoking, and I went up and I knelt in front of her and I said, 'Jeanne, I'm a huge admirer,' and she said, 'Oh darling, I enjoy you.' I was thrilled to meet her and I think that she was so used to people saying that she would have said 'Hello my darling' to absolutely anybody.”

“Cries and Whispers, suffering away here. I love that.”

“Isn't that serendipitous? Olivier's Hamlet. They all have to—English actor, you have to do that. It's this talisman of Shakespeare film performances.”

“Tin Drum, absolute masterpiece. I was so shocked by that when I saw that when I was a student.”

“Bang, City Lights, Chaplin, yeah.”

“First time I'd seen Meryl Streep but then got to work with on Iron Lady and that was a huge moment because she was somebody that I had admired and for so long.”

“Have you got Nashville? Yeah, it's right here. As if on cue, there it is.”

“The Graduate. I saw this on a re-release print last year and it is when Dustin Hoffman makes that panic sound when he's being seduced or being pursued by Bancroft, who was only eight years older than him at the time.”

“Day for Night. François Truffaut, yes.”

“Some Like It Hot. Okay, Some Like It Hot. Well, nobody's perfect. I couldn't end on a better note than Billy Wilder's comic timeless masterpiece.”

“Oh La strada masterpiece Fellini I'm on a Fellini thing here okay...”