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Jone Smith on: Molly's Game, Jessica Chastain
MOVIEIRV on: The Florida Project, Willem Dafoe
Arthomas on: The Only Living Boy in New York, Kate Beckinsale
Linda on: Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson (for an hour)
Monco on: Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson (for an hour)
Stephanie on: Telluride: Emma Stone, La La Land
movieman on: Krisha, Krisha Fairchild, Trey Edward Shults, Robyn Fairchild
theschu on: Robert Redford
Mark Ulano on: The Hateful Eight, Quentin Tarantino (spoilers avoided)
Brian Tyree Henry, If Beale St Could Talk, Widows, Spider-Man Into The Spiderverse, Atlanta
Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate
DP/30 Audio Only: Brian Tyree Henry, December 2018
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“Don’t work with assholes. Ever. No matter what they’re offering, no matter what they bring to the table. If they’re the sort of person where the phone rings at 10 o’clock at night and you wince because you see that it’s them, then don’t do business with them. One asshole will ruin your life. I’ve managed my entire TV and filmmaking career to work with people I like and respect. If the point comes where I don’t like or respect someone, I don’t work with them anymore.”
– Anthony Bourdain
The Atlantic: You saw that the Academy Awards recently held up your 2001 acceptance speech as the Platonic ideal of an Oscar speech. Did you have a reaction?
Soderbergh: Shock and dismay. When that popped up and people started texting me about it, I said, “Oh, it’s too bad I’m not there to tell the story of how that took place.” Well. I was not sober at the time. And I had nothing prepared because I knew I wasn’t going to win [Best Director for Traffic]. I figured Ridley, Ang or Daldry would win. So I was hitting the bar pretty hard, having a great night, feeling super-relaxed because I don’t have to get up there. So the combination of a 0.4 blood alcohol level and lack of preparation resulted in me, in my state of drunkenness crossed with adrenaline surge. I was coherent enough to know that [if I tried to thank everyone], that way lies destruction. So I went the other way. There were some people who appreciated that, and there were some people who really wanted to hear their names said, and I had to apologize to them.
~ Steven Soderbergh
Very nice!
David,
Great interview with QT.
Just curious, we haven’t seen the interview you did with Fred Raskin and myself posted anywhere. wondering if it will surface?
Mark Ulano