Terrific movie, and Dustin was terrific in it, and John Voight.

Interestingly, he also became the first president to watch an X-rated film, “Midnight Cowboy,” in the family theater.

A really influential movie on me; it was a big part of why I wanted to become an actor. We had one of those dollar theaters in the neighborhood, the kind that ran films on a second or third run. I saw it after it had been out for a while, and I remember thinking 'Wow, how did they get this homeless guy to show up to make the movie? And isn't that cool that this cowboy was also in it.