"I'm just so happy with how it turned out — a nice little B picture, which is tough to do these days. I read the script, I saw that it could be the equivalent of a real page-turner, and I thought all right, if the director can deliver what I think I'm seeing here, then this could be really wonderful.

"I love Guardians of the Galaxy…and not just because I'm in it. [Chris Pratt's Star-Lord refers to Bacon several times in the movie, mostly as a mighty hero from "the legend of Footloose."] It's my idea of a perfect pop-culture movie, because it is funny and exciting and really, really well acted, really well written…I don't think that I've talked to anyone that didn't like it. I was just discussing this with someone, how numb I am to CGI effects. I'm sort of over it. So when you can do what this movie does, at that sort of blockbuster level — it's that much more impressive. Totally dig it."

"Speaking of the Ziegfeld…I got to see a screening of this there when Martin Scorsese and Robbie Robertson got a hold of the original tracks and remixed it — I think it for a reissue of it or an anniversary. Completely mind-blowing. That theater has the best sound system. I'm a music lover so, obviously, I'm a huge fan of the Band. But even if you're not a fan, it's pretty much the best concert movie ever."

Going to the Ziegfeld here on 54th street, opening day of Apocalypse Now — big, big moment for me. I remember hearing the helicopters come from behind my head and…I didn’t even know what to think. It was like stereophonic sound where they put some speakers in the back of the theater, and it felt like the choppers were coming over me. From the very first moment, you weren't watching it. You were in it.

"This was the Orson Welles movie that didn't make any money, right? [Laughs] I remember seeing this around the time I was doing Animal House, and it just blew me away. It's considered a classic now, but when I saw it, my first thought was: 'Why have I never heard of this?!' That opening shot, where the camera is tracking along with [Charlton] Heston as they walk along the Mexican border, with the bomb…it's a landmark shot of its type. You see stuff like that a lot now, with those long takes, but back then…revolutionary."

It's fun that I've had the chance to be in some sort of genre-defining movies — but no one knew Animal House was going to end being anything like that at all. All I was doing was picking up the phone and saying, "Yes" when they offered me a job [laughs]. I just went out there as a teenager and got to experience those five weeks in Eugene, Oregon and everything that came with that. It was a life-changing experience.