Author: Joe Willams

“He’s charging it up!”

“I always, you know, try to get the people that I look up to involved in my work.”

“The things I saw during the occupation made me very realistic about life. I’ve been that way ever since.”

How one scene reveals a strange historical error.

An intriguing but unsuccessful attempt at a science-fiction drama.

How the forced inclusion of a sex scene in one of Aaron Sorkin’s movies resulted in a “mess”.

“It’s a character that I’ve been with — like everybody — since my childhood.”

A movie that literally reshaped the landscape of cinema.

When the face of modernist horror was born.

“If you look at it, you’ll see that a lot of directors of my era have been influenced by the aesthetic.”

The leading lady of classical Hollywood had high regard for this one other actor.

The director’s first and last attempt at an outright comedy.