Carol Kane

“So since I was a little girl and I had insomnia and I used to watch Million Dollar Movie all night long in New York City, that's what we had, Million Dollar Movie, and I fell in love with Bette Davis, the first real character actress star. She didn't care what she looked like. If somebody had to be beat up, she really wanted to look beat up. In those days that didn't happen. If you were a star and you had to get beat up, you'd have like a little bit of dirt there, but not Miss Davis. Miss Davis would go to any lengths. Now, she happens to look gorgeous in All About Eve, and she is so brilliant. Joseph Mankiewicz directed it. You got to see it.”

“Here, I want to talk about Local Hero by a director named Bill Forsyth, and my friend Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster star in it. It's the kind of movie I like because I like a, a little story about people. I don't so much like action. I guess I could get punished for saying that, and I shouldn't say that because I'd like to be in an action movie so I could actually earn a living at what I do.”

“A great director who's currently still making great films, early on in her career directed Judy Davis when she was extremely young and had more hair than anyone in the world and was brilliant. And this is My Brilliant Career by Gillian Armstrong.”

“Because I don't want you to think that I'm just like plugging myself in The Princess Bride, which is such a great movie, even though I do happen to be in it, but I'm in disguise, so that's okay. Just so you don't think I'm just talking about me...”

“Let's talk about Shampoo, which, oh my God, Warren Beatty, are you kidding? Hal Ashby directed this, written by the great Robert Towne.”

“Okay, Hobson's Choice is what I want to talk about. It's about people sort of like trying to do what's right for the other person and sacrificing for the other person while the other person is sacrificing for them. It's, it's a gorgeous movie, Hobson's Choice, Charles Laughton. Henry VIII is another great Charles Laughton movie.”

“So I'm going to say three movies fast: My Own Private Idaho, Gus Van Sant.”

“Oh, Fisher King, my God, that's such a great...”

“And City Lights.”

“Now I really have to shut up because, I'm really out of time, but you got to see The Ice Storm, Ang Lee.”

“You got to see The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson, and my co-star in, Between the Temples, Jason Schwartzman. I'm in love with Jason Schwartzman. You will be too. Bye.”

“Okay, look, enough said: John Cassavetes: Five Movies. And I had the great privilege to work with John and Gena, in the theater. And, he made everybody that worked with him much better than we were, that because he believed in people so much, and so I was so lucky. And Gena, as we know, is a, a queen and a goddess, and you got to see Opening Night, oh my God, and they're so great together. Okay, I better move on.”