A Room with a View

“All right, Room with a View. Now I’m going to get emotional. I grew up in a cultural vacuum in a small town in Illinois... When Room with a View showed up, I was 15 or 16, and so I was just discovering romance in my own life, and this was just, like, the—I’ve never had a finer bottle of red wine than this movie. Daniel Day-Lewis is so goddamn funny in this movie, in, like, a pince-nez sort of spectacles. It’s just absolutely gorgeous. It’s so elegiac and romantic and turned me into an absolut...”

“Room with a View, which was one of the first—I worked for Merchant Ivory in my youth and it still holds up so amazingly well, that film. I saw it recently and Howard's End too. They're both really beautiful. They're much more kind of subversive than you end up thinking they are.”

“This is A Room with a View, and it’s a Merchant Ivory film, which, if you’re Indian and you were around in the ’80s and the ’90s, Ismail Merchant was so huge for us because he was one of the people we could look to as really making it in the business and being successful. And there’s actually a very grown-up scene in the movie people who know the movie will know, which is Julian Sands and another actor are running fully Naked around a pond in this joyous scene.”