Author: Thomas Coll Archives: 09/2023

“It took 30 years for movies to get this wild again.”

“I was raised, of course, in what they call the Golden Age of movies.”

Manipulated and infantilised: “I’m sorry baby”.

“He’s a big bag of tricks.”

“Because I think he really is a genius.”

Varying choices.

“Books I’d take with me if I were literally stranded indefinitely on a desert island.”

“After we saw it, it helped clarify what we were going for.”

“He’s as modern an actor as you would ever like to meet.”

“I’m working with this young boy. You must work with him sometime.”

The English cinema icon has finally out-Loached himself.

“I wanted to see him in this romantic part that I’d seen him have moments of in Groundhog Day and Rushmore.”