“Straw Dogs, the takeaways I take from watching this are silly, but one, that Dustin Hoffman, you see him shaving with an electric razor in his trailer. It looks like the kind of thing would just eat your neck up. But he's really talking about the movie, "I'm a mathematician," but the thing that I found really, that that stays with me is this I guess it has to do also with Under the Volcano, like John Huston reading the paper, sort of what people do, how they budget their focus and energy over the course of a shoot and what they do between takes, and, Sam Peckinpah doesn't read the newspaper. He has a knife that he, is a pretty big knife, and he throws it at this door that's like a broken door piece of wood leaning against his house until they're ready to shoot. I've never been around a knife-throwing director. Don't know how I'd feel about it, and I guess in that case I'd be more afraid of the razor shaving one.”
