I think one thing actually that sometimes even gay people seem to forget about: there is something extremely sexy about being the only two people in the room who have a secret that no one else knows about. 
Groucho Reviews
Latest Interviews
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Goran Stolevski−Of An Age, You Won't Be Alone—2/6/2023 *
I think one thing actually that sometimes even gay people seem to forget about: there is something extremely sexy about being the only two people in the room who have a secret that no one else knows about. -
Marcia Gay Harden—Confess, Fletch; Miller's Crossing—9/16/2022 *
It was so much fun. She was slightly, wonderfully over the top, narcissistic, and enjoys life. -
Steve Martin & Martin Short—Only Murders in the Building—5/25/2022 *
[Martin:] I've read that monkeypox is sexually transmitted, so neither Marty nor I could possibly catch it." [Short:] "Unless you can catch it through batteries." -
Harvey Guillén—Werewolves Within and What We Do in the Shadows—6/25/2021 *
I wanted with Joachim to have quirks and certain characteristics that I know from friends and people I've worked with...I love him being over the top and flamboyant, but still grounded, 'cause we all have a friend like that. -
Jack Dylan Grazer & Fionn Whitehead—Don't Tell a Soul—12/14/2020 *
[Grazer:] I feel like Fionn, not only on set but just in life, showed me the ropes as like a brother would do. -
Will Forte—Extra Ordinary, MacGruber—2/17/2020 *
I feel like most of the discussion about the character on this one was about hair. (Laughs.) Hair and facial hair....And they told me to take a look at Chris de Burgh videos. -
Ruth E. Carter—Dolemite Is My Name, Do the Right Thing—11/20/2019 *
I don't want to be on my own island...I'm here to collaborate, not to just be the Grand Poobah of costume design. -
Scott Z. Burns & Daniel Jones—The Report—10/11/2019 *
[Burns:] 'The only thing more powerful than telling someone a story they don't know is telling someone a story that they thought they knew'...Whenever I could I used the language and the facts that are in the report to tell the story of the program. -
Ira Sachs—Frankie—10/7/2019 *
I'm interested in a democratic narrative...Anyone who is on the screen is interesting. Right? Everyone has their own story. -
Alfonso Cuarón—Roma—1/4/2019 *
I was very lucky to be raised by two strong and very generous women...[Cleo] embodies, in one hand, those scars that I share with my family, but in the other hand, those scars that I share with a whole society. -
Pawel Pawlikowski—Cold War, Ida—10/5/2018 *
The more you think about [your parents], the more contradictory they get...A lot of people find themselves in this film. You'd expect it's such an unusual, eccentric story, but... -
Peter Hedges—Ben is Back, The Odd Life of Timothy Green—10/12/2018 *
Who wants to be directed by their father? Particularly at an age when—the fun part of being 21 is that you fire your parents. Y'know, you're free of them. -
Paul Dano—Wildlife, Love & Mercy—10/5/2018 *
[I] immediately felt a sort of uncanny personal relationship to it: the characters, the sense of love in this really great struggle...a lot of pain. [Richard Ford] somehow wrote about this very difficult situation with a great amount of compassion. -
Frederick Wiseman—Monrovia, Indiana; Titicut Follies—9/28/2018 *
I'm trying to make a group of movies that represent as many different aspects of contemporary life as I can. -
Kathryn Hahn & Tamara Jenkins—Private Life—10/5/2018 *
[Hahn:] Like childbirth, a movie is like: you kind of forget the pain and would do it again in a second. -
Bo Burnham—Eighth Grade—6/7/2018 *
I felt...pop culture is insane, and I always felt so gross for participating in it, and so hypocritical for participating in it. So what I’ll be is an angry hypocrite. Because that’s a coherent, at least, worldview. -
Paul Schrader—First Reformed, Auto Focus—4/6/2018 *
‘Why are we here? Where are we going? What will become of us?’ And for twenty or thirty thousand years, that’s been a hypothetical question…well, it’s no longer… -
Jason Isaacs—The Death of Stalin, Star Trek: Discovery, Harry Potter—4/22/2018 *
You can't sprinkle perfume on a turd...You can't make a bad script into a good story. -
Michael Mayer—The Seagull—April 29, 2018 *
For most of my life, I really identified with Constantin...but through the years, I've probably become more of a Trigorin. -
Armando Iannucci—The Death of Stalin—3/12/2018 *
The comedy's suddenly different. The jokes are more about crazy behavior, paranoia, and hysteria. -
Andrew Haigh—Lean on Pete, Looking, Weekend—3/5/2018 *
I think most of us are trying to find things to not be alone...we all need so much to be loved. -
Paul McGuigan—Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Sherlock—12/8/2017 *
Annette is a student. I went to see her in her house...and she had books of Gloria and she had Post-Its everywhere. -
Richard Linklater—Last Flag Flying—10/12/2017 *
It's touchy ground when you get on flag territory these days... -
Todd Haynes—Wonderstruck, Superstar—10/13/2017 *
This age, which hasn't been named yet, it hasn't been mapped yet, it hasn't been defined and labeled: everything's possible...There's an intimacy that you can have with your same-sex friendships...that you may never achieve again in life. -
Kyle Mooney & Dave McCary—Brigsby Bear, Saturday Night Live—7/15/2017 *
[Mooney:] It is nice, though, these pieces that get cut have a chance to live somewhere and that people can watch them. So there's certainly disappointment when your sketches keep on getting cut, but... -
Brett Haley & Katharine Ross—The Hero, The Graduate—4/12/2017 *
[Ross:] One of the most rewarding things about working with Brett is the word 'options.' He likes options. And that's very stimulating for an actor. -
James Gray—The Lost City of Z, Two Lovers—4/9/2017 *
Art is my form of religion. It's my way of dealing with mortality...I never saw Fawcett's story as a tragedy. There was a level of transcendence to it. -
Catherine Eaton & Teddy Sears—The Sounding, 24: Legacy, The Flash—3/3/2017 *
[Sears:] The greatest part of being an actor, I think, is that wonderful thing that happens between two people who are really listening, really responding... -
Ritesh Batra—The Sense of an Ending, The Lunchbox—2/21/2017 *
It's really about pissing off those you love to impress those you will never meet. -
Damien Chazelle & Justin Hurwitz—La La Land, Whiplash—10/6/2016 *
[Chazelle:] See if you can marry two things that feel like they should not exist in a movie together: the heights of musical spectacle that we're used to from Old Hollywood with a more documentary-informed sense of realism... -
Bill Nighy—Their Finest—2/16/2017 *
I'm a science-fiction freak...I dig that sort of stuff. -
Mike Mills—20th Century Women, Beginners, Thumbsucker—12/19/2016 *
How did I get to be this person? What's the history of me? And is it the right story?...And I like trying to get people I've known right on screen. -
Gregg Henry—Guardians of the Galaxy, Body Double, Jason Bourne—08/28/2016 *
The first thing I did with De Palma was Scarface...A De Palma set is a very different kind of set than a James Gunn set or a Paul Greengrass set...He likes it extremely quiet on the set... -
Sean Gunn—Guardians of the Galaxy, Gilmore Girls—8/28/2016 *
[Vol. 2] starts only a couple of months after the first one...understand, from Kraglin's point-of-view, that Quill did double-cross them...And so the movie starts from that jumping-off point of 'I'm not sure everything is feeling great in Ravager-ville.' -
Rick Cosnett—The Flash—08/27/2016 *
People['s]...imaginations are going crazy as to what [Eddie] could be next. And I would love him to have powers and come back. Especially now with 'Flashpoint'... -
John Krasinski & Margo Martindale—The Hollars—8/21/2016 *
[Krasinski:] I needed to make sure that we weren't making a 'movie family,' that you could project your own family into them. It had to feel like your family, it had to feel like your hometown...it had to feel like you were living through this with them. -
Jonathan Groff, Murray Bartlett, Frankie J. Alvarez, Raúl Castillo, Lauren Weedman & Daniel Franzese—Looking—6/26/2016 *
[Groff:] We're seeing Patrick become a man and sort of come into his own. And be okay with not having an answer...I didn't consciously try to put myself into Patrick, but inevitably...when I'm playing a character, it starts to bleed into my everyday life. -
Ira Sachs & Theo Taplitz—Little Men—4/29/2016 *
[Taplitz:] Life may not always be fair, or good, but there's certainly moments of it that can be quite amazing...What [Jake] learns from Tony is to be sure of himself, to be there and to be proud of your decisions. -
Mike Birbiglia—Don't Think Twice—6/9/2016 *
No one knows how to direct a movie, no matter what anybody tells you. Nobody knows how to direct a movie until you've directed a movie. -
Matt Ross—Captain Fantastic, Silicon Valley—7/7/2016 *
On a daily basis, you're re-calibrating, if not an hourly basis, trying to do the right thing by your children...They're only in the house so long, and I'm curating their lives.