Ridley's style is completely unlike anything I've ever done. He's able to see the film in his eyes; he's able to edit in his mind while watching seven monitors. There's this intense group of people working twenty-four hours a day, giving Ridley what he wants, and Ridley wants certain things at certain times. It was a badass film to be a part of.

So to me the story was a simple linear story, but in Alejandro’s hands, of course, it becomes a sort of visual, existential poetry. Not a lot of directors wanted to take this on because of how difficult it would be to shoot. The script had been floating around for a couple of years. It wasn’t until Alejandro was attached to this man’s struggle in nature that it got going. I reread it and met him again, and I decided to embark on what I would characterize as more of a chapter of my life than a film commitment—because it was epic in every sense of the word.

There was this immediate excitement and seeing Luke Perry, you know unset it was incredible I remember being ,you know, in my teens and he was the manifestation of the new Dean on television, then everyone was crazy about him and I act I felt this overwhelming feeling of kind of being starstruck.

Martin Scorsese is not only one of cinema’s most incredible talents, but a personal hero and a friend. It was an honor to celebrate you tonight.

I was 18 when I got to work with Meryl,” he said. “I remember going over my lines with her off camera, looking at her and thinking to myself, ‘What is going on here? How is this going to look good?’ Then when I sat in the theater, it was, ‘Oh, my God, she’s the only person who looks completely natural.’ Meryl may be the greatest actor in the world.”

Out of any actor, I can’t think of anyone who’s got more memorable moments in cinema than Jack Nicholson. Jack never takes a single line straight on. Never takes an emotion written in the script at face value. He brings terror into what you thought was supposed to be a light moment and makes a light moment out of a cutthroat vicious line. He flips everything on its side.