The films that I like aren’t necessarily because they’re good films in themselves — One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a good film — but that one specifically meant a lot to me.

Her favourite film is One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest 'I think mental hospitals are really fascinating'

And also right before One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest I was going to deal with life inside a sanitarium. And those things are very hard to make funny. Even though you can do it brilliantly like they did in Cuckoo’s Nest where you blend it all together.

I’d say The Shining. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I’m a huge Jack Nicholson fan. He’s obviously… Everything from Five Easy Pieces, another one that’s just phenomenal to me… Yeah, he’s a god to me.

What are your five favorite films? One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Godfather, Man on Wire, Rocky, The Hangover (my guilty pleasure).

I was dismayed at how many twenty-year-olds have never seen Godfather, Cuckoo’s Nest, All the President’s Men—these films that are in the Bible to me. And they may not even get to see them. I’ve always believed every good film finds its eyes, inevitably. But there’s a shift in attention span.

If you could pick your favorite movie of all time, what would you pick. - I think Singin' in the Rain and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I mean they are very different movies, but they would be my top 2. (0:45 s)

The final scene is this great film is incredibly sad. To watch McMurphy stumble to his bed after getting zapped is really hard to watch. Then we have to suffer through the Chief smothering him with a pillow. Which is followed by an amazing moment when the Chief pulls the zapping machine out of the ground, throws it through the window and escapes.

That’s just one of the great… That’s another great one.

I’ll continue the Jack Nicholson theme and go to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Of its era, the great American novel. R.P. McMurphy is probably the defining Jack Nicholson character, if you had to pick one. It’s actually the first film I ever saw. I don’t remember it, but I was a little baby and my mom took me. It’s one of those movies I’ll watch whenever I’m feeling lost or alone in the universe.

I think it’s a timeless movie. You watch it now and it hasn’t dated one inch. I think it’s incredibly… it’s just staggering, and it’s so moving. That’s a really brilliantly directed movie.