Gene Hackman’s bizarre definition of what makes a great movie scene: “I wondered if it was true”
Or maybe he had a point.
Cutting Room Floor Archives: 06/2025
Henry Fonda’s miserable time at a drug-fuelled Dennis Hopper party: “He was going nuts”
An unwanted brush with counterculture.
Stephen King names the worst slasher movie in cinema history: “Oh, my god, that’s awful”
The bottom of the barrel.
The ‘Bond girl’ who completely forgot they were a ‘Bond girl’: “I’ve changed my artistic name”
Clearly a memorable experience.
The first movie scene that disturbed Quentin Tarantino: “All of a sudden, I’m afraid”
This sequence knocked a young QT for six.
The moment Anthony Hopkins refused to learn his lines: “I’m throwing these pages in the trash”
Hopkins wasn’t in the mood to entertain rewrites on this one.