Easy Rider

“So this one is Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper. My very first movie was with Dennis Hopper, he played my dad. I was still in drama school when we made this film. Not a very good film, but I was so incredibly impressed by him, and he really taught me all the basics of being an actress, like: if you don’t see the camera, the camera can’t see you, which seems pretty obvious, but it wasn’t so much to me. Obviously, I had seen this film before I met him, but I always like to watch it.”

“And then, you know, Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider. I actually have this... An art book of all the photos that Dennis Hopper took while making this film, and it is so beautiful. I have it on my coffee table, and it inspires me to want to try to take more photos while I’m making movies to... Capture something special.”

“Last but not least this is a film Easy Rider with a special kind of impact for me... Dennis Hopper wanted to meet me... I flew back to Romania and what was happening is that Dennis Hopper was shooting as an actor a film in Bucharest... I spent time with him rewriting that screenplay and I think the experience was better than the screenplay but it brought me closer not only to his films but to him as a character and he was a character.”

“Easy Rider. I've seen this film so many times. Jack Nicholson, he comes in kind of close to the end and I always remember the tragedy of the Performance. I always remember him every time he takes a drink he goes [makes noise]. So that's always stayed with me. It's very interesting you see tripping on TV a lot but you never see it as realistically well done as this where you feel like the characters are actually going through quite a lot of personal anguish and pain. It's a timeless piece.”