"This, like my Bresson pick, is sort of a stand-in for Godard’s entire body of work. But this is one I saw on the big screen when I saw it for the first time, and I think Godard, more than anybody, needs to be seen on the big screen. I was so happy watching this movie . . . I almost never laugh out loud at movies because I’m a curmudgeon, and I remember cackling through the whole thing."

"Number four would be Grease, which I saw ten times in the movie theater [and recently]; Paul [Soter] had never seen it, so we went to a revival when it came out again."

"Another film that I saw at an impressionable time in my life that served for me as a beautiful testament to the power of love in the face of absolute injustice and oppression."

"Yes. I like that one. It was one of those I saw late. I’d talked to everyone else who had already seen it. I like the construction of the narrative in that film."

"Moby Dick — John Huston’s Moby Dick, because it was a movie I saw as a kid, and it was like the great, dramatic boy movie; it’s the movie I can still watch every week."

"Don’t know why he works on me, but he does. Saw Life Aquatic in a theater but was oblivious before that. Didn’t know you were allowed to go for the internal laugh before this."