"This film was a favorite of my late friend Damien Bona, and always reminds me of him. A humanist classic, it inspired another classic, Ozu’s Tokyo Story."

"Still my favorite Cronenberg by far. What can I say? The first time I saw it, it oozed up under my skin, and it has never left."

"I'm pretty heartless but if this book had gone on for three more pages, I would've been a crying mess. Easily one of my favorite books ever."

"Stephen, my road manager, got me something that Truman Capote wrote, Music for Chameleons. I read strange things. My favorite book is Stranger in a Strange Land."

"Stephen, my road manager, got me something that Truman Capote wrote, Music for Chameleons. I read strange things. My favorite book is Stranger in a Strange Land."

"I think when you ask for favorite films, you’re really asking “favorite films at 15” — you know what I’m saying? Formative favorite films. I don’t think they really change much. You sort of can’t argue with your inner 13-year-old that watched something 25,000 times. Now I’ll see something adult and be affected by it — like A Separation, which I saw and I loved — but it’s gonna be hard to top those 25,000 viewings when you were 13. You get past pubescence and it’s cooked. Put a fork in it, your favorite films is done. [Laughs] Don’t hold me to it. The English Patient: Oh my gosh, it was just so affecting when I saw it. The performances are impeccable. The sense of time and place; everything about it. It’s really one of those kinds of epics — like Lawrence of Arabia is an epic. You rarely see epics any more."