"It’s just a totally preposterous record. The drums are like Animal from the Muppets along with samples from videos of cheerleaders and stuff that sounded like ’70s cop movie soundtracks all mashed up together. There’s something fantastically unmusical about it, which I totally love."

"I put myself through college working as a projectionist for the film program, and this was the first film I showed. Its images still haunt me. This film first brought Bergman together with his acclaimed cinematographer Sven Nykvist, and it brought them to me."

"The man who wrote many Marx Brothers movies was the greatest wordsmith America has ever produced. This collection brings together his comic essays, most of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. You have to read him with a dictionary, but it’s worth it."

""The last page of the Origin of Species has a very, very famous paragraph about Darwin’s looking at the tangled bank in an English hedgerow and seeing how all these things fit together…it is a very memorable and important summary of his attitudes.""

"Quiet Life' is one of the most beautiful tracks Giorgio Moroder ever created, and together with the voice of the uber-glamourous Dave Sylvian, is like heaven on a stick. The cover of 'All Tomorrow's Parties', dare I say, is better than the original."

"The Thing is a classic. Even though the effects are a little outdated, it still scares the crap out of me. We actually watched this movie while filming It Follows. The whole cast piled into one of our hotel rooms and we watched together."

"…and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense. That’s another one, it’s just got that — it’s like the otherworldly and the mundane just clash, and blend together in this way that you can’t tell where one ends and the other starts. I love that movie."

"This very early work by Stanley Kubrick is the most powerful antiwar film I know. Its emotional impact is overwhelming. Few people can watch the last scene without shedding tears. (The singer in it became Kubrick’s second wife, and they remained together until his death.)"