Maya and Ethan Hawke

“Oh, now I have been wanting to show you this my whole life. In fact, I've brought this on 19 vacations and you guys never wanted to watch it. It's so good. Oh, watch this. War and Peace, amazing. I mean, and it's animated. No, it's not animated, just joking, the cover. War and Peace. Yeah, you can get confused here at Criterion 'cause the posters are so cool, are so beautiful, yeah, that you think everything's animated.”

“Frances Ha, favorite Greta Gerwig performance. Oh, amazing. Though I also really liked the romantic comedy that you guys did together. Oh, thank you. You're welcome. Somehow I bet that's not. Watched it on a plane and it really got me through a long flight. All right, all right, well that picks a dad up, you know, it puts wind in his sails.”

“When I picked up Stranger Than Paradise I thought it was going to be Children of Paradise. You got to show everybody Children of Paradise. I constantly recommend it to people. I was so grateful that you—you're doing the Lord's work when you do that. For those of you out there at home, you can't go wrong, Children of Paradise. But I highly recommend being patient. Like Sunday morning, like cup of coffee, just chill out, sit down, enjoy the ride. A Good Morning watch. Yeah, it'll change your life. Great.”

“Have you seen this movie? 3 Women, Altman. Oh, right, 'cause when I fell in love with Nashville so hard I like checked this movie out. It is a confounding movie. I love it. It is so profoundly strange. Anything with Sissy Spacek is a winner as far as I'm concerned.”

“I took your mother to see this movie on our first dates, yeah. Husbands. Husbands, Cassavetes. Cool. So I think she liked it. She did, she didn't like the chairs at the Film Forum. She complained about the chairs, but I think she liked the movie.”

“The Magnificent Ambersons, I've actually never seen. Like people who say Orson Welles was a one-hit wonder, then there's the others who say, "Have you seen Magnificent Ambersons?" And I'm like, "No, I actually haven't." And they're like, "You're not really a film fanatic if you haven't seen that."”

“This movie has inspired me to no end. Pina. I don't know, I don't know this. Really? Put it in your bag. Okay. Wenders' documentary on Pina Bausch, the incredible choreographer. It sounds like it's going to be a dance documentary, but it's like it, I don't know, it's so moving. You know that one of the high points of my life was when we showed Wildcat at Telluride and I actually met Wim Wenders. I said Wenders and it's obviously Wim Wenders, I just. But you sounded, said it with such confidence that every, I even thought, "Do I pronounce his name wrong?" No, no, you're right. Anyway, we bought a cowboy hat together and that kind of made me— Changed your life. Well, it made me feel something must be going all right.”

“I'm looking for some of the movies on our list of our Wildcat inspirations, but I'm having a hard time finding An Angel at My Table. Do they have that? Oh, there it is. 'Cause what it does is it, An Angel at My Table is, it's yeah, it's a biopic, but it's a great film. You don't need to know who Janet Frame is, you don't, you don't need, you just Jane Campion knocking it out of the park again. And it's so patient. Even though like very little ever like quote-unquote happens in a scene, every moment that happens, every exchange, like every raised eyebrow is the, is the happening of the scene. And it's just, I don't know, like changed my brain, this movie.”

“Oh, Tess. I learned a little bit about how it was made and that they like shot every scene at golden hour, and they would just like prepare and rehearse all day and then go shoot at golden hour and then be done for the day. I was like, can we bring that back? I know. Like is anyone still doing that? 'Cause I'd like to volunteer as tribute to be in that movie.”

“Where you— Well, that makes me think, I mean it feels like when we watched Days of Heaven together, I felt like that movie must have been done that way too. They probably shot at, you know, 5:00 a. M. And 6:00 p. M. It's so beautiful. Where is Days of Heaven? The wall behind. No wonder we couldn't find it. Bright eyes, every now and then I see a Terrence Malick film and it burns my eyes. Okay, beautiful, Days of Heaven. It's a classic worth revisiting. It needs to be done.”

“Speaking of Terrence Malick and beauty, this is Peter Weir, and he directed my first, the one of, well the second movie I was in, Dead Poets Society, and he just retired, and you know, his whole canon is worth revisiting. But Picnic at Hanging Rock, we all owe a lot to this movie. This movie is one of those weird movies where you watch it and you're like, oh, people have been ripping this movie off for generations.”

“I also haven't seen Kicking and Screaming ever, and I would really like to. Is it, is it, is it, am I just, am I just seduced by the title or is it also— Well, the reason why you're seduced is Josh Hamilton is in this movie. Really? Yeah. I love him. I know, and the reason why it is my favorite Noah Baumbach film is because it stars Josh Hamilton. Note to Noah Baumbach: give Josh a great part again, your career will take off, dude. Yeah, he needs a lot of help. Yeah, he needs a lot of help.”