[ sound of gunfire ] as far back as i can remember, i always wanted to be a gangster. Goodfellas is like, fasten your seatbelts, im going to kick the shit out of you for two and a half hours, and youre going to love it. There have been so many gangster movies, so many mob movies. Is it really possible that in 1990 Martin Scorsese will be able to make a gangster movie that has something to say that hasnt already been said a million times . Its going to be a good summer. And you watch the movie and youre like, yeah. See you later, thanks. What are you doing . Youre leaving your car . He watches the car for me. We try to capture the exuberance of that world. Its dangerous and threatening, but theyre having a wonderful time. Goodfellas was the nuts and bolts of the mob. It was the mob as a job. What do you do . What . What do you do . Im in construction. And the balance of these two families, of your mob family and your real family, and the way that the two start to bleed into each other. Are you all right . Are you all right . Yeah. Huh . Yeah. Goodfellas was based on a book called wiseguys. And i read it, and i said, you know what . What if i play this guy named jimmy the chin . What did i tell you . What did i tell you . You dont buy anything, you hear me . Dont buy anything. Its a true story. And it is the nature of that lifestyle. Just a little taste. You have to be clever enough, let alone have the audacity, the discretion. But ultimately not being afraid of the violence. [ bleep ] believe what i just heard. This is for you. Attaboy. The dangerous enjoyment of it where you can be enjoying and then suddenly somebody gets shot in the chest. Whats the world coming to . [ sound of gunfire ] then its not funny. There is a price for everything you do. All right. You all know the drill. In the 90s, theres a host of movies in which people operate outside the system. We love the idea of the outlaw. Its one of the reasons we go to the movies. Merry christmas. Merry christmas to you, officer. You go to the movies to see people violate the morays and laws of society. Im going to take one of those big envelopes and put as many 100s, 50s, and 20s as you can put into it. In the mid90s, we were rooting for criminals to get away with it. Would you like a cigarette, nick . We wanted the bad guys to be the good guys. It was the era when the antihero was on the rise. You have something against ice cubes . I like rough edges. In basic sin tingt, the character is a sociopath. When i played the part, i needed to understand the sociopathic mind. And that is a very scary thing. Silence of the lambs, i remember waiting for it with bated breath for it to come out. Nothing prepared me for how jonathan shot walking to meet hannibal elector. Dr. Lecter, my name is clarice starling. May i speak with you . This is a film that is also an actors piece. Closer. Told by the closeup master of all time. The tension, it just kept rising and rising. Most serial killers keep some sort of trophies from their victims. I didnt. No. No, you ate yours. Silence of the lambs is about this eerie dance between clarice starling and Hannibal Lecter. People will say were in love. And manages to take elements of the horror movie and even the gothic iconography and put it into a real world thriller. You still wake up sometimes, dont you, wake up in the dark, and hear the screaming of the lambs. Yes. Silence of the lambs becomes one of three films ever to win best picture, best actress, best director, best adapted screenplay, and then Anthony Hopkins wins for best actor for playing Hannibal Lecter with maybe 16 minutes of screen time. Shit, thelma. The thing i love about thelma and louis is it was a love story between two women. It was one of the great buddy movies of all time. Two friends decide to get away and things go off the rails really, really quickly. Shut up you hear me . Shut up please, please dont hurt me you let her go, you [ bleep ] hole or im going to splatter your ugly face all over this nice car. I was driving home one night and the idea just hit me, two women go on a crime spree. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, this is a robbery. It wasnt just the idea. I kind of saw the whole movie in one flash. Goddamn, youre a bitch i dont think hes going to apologize. Nah, i dont think so. [ sound of gunfire ] [ screaming ] its an odyssey of two women on the last journey. They would not know it was the last journey and therefore the journey had to be magnificent. A lot of women looked at this film and thought, i can relate to those women, you know what theyre going through, i can relate to the choices they make. Lets keep going. What do you mean . Go they looked at each other and they both knew. You sure . Its kind of the culmination of both our lives and we have no choice. Lets go. I cant imagine the movie would have had any power at all had we not ended it that way. I have no enemies here. No . Wait a while. Shawshank redemption is the perfect prison film. For good prison movie you need a warden whos corrupt. I wouldnt worry about this contract. You need some claustrophobia, right, you need to make the audience feel like theyre trapped. And then there has to be hope. A little parole rejection present. The audience has to hope for Something Better for these characters that they fall for. Its a love between two men, spending 20, 30 years in prison, getting to know each other. The funny thing is, on the outside, i was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook. Ha watching these fellas lives rotate through this system. Shawshank redemption is about seeking justice in an imperfect world. When the convicts win, you have a sense of relief and that somehow justice has been done. Trying to make it real in vegas, everybodys got to watch everybody else. Casino was the story of the hubris of these two men, joes character and bobs character. Look at this place, its made of money. You know what the best part is, nobodys going to know what were doing. And poor sharon who is thrown in the middle of it. Working for marty is a big thing. He was very open, supportive, encouraging, and so present with me. Can i trust you . Answer me. Can i trust you . Sharon stone is in the great tradition of crawford and the great divas. And i had to learn how to bring out what i needed through her. [ screaming ] no no with marty, because his films are so daring and the violence is so violent and because everything that you do is so true, you have to be really willing to kind of let your guts come out. Get outta here. Fine. Im taking amy. Youre not taking amy. Youre stoned. Youre a junkie. Get out of here. [ bleep ]. Damn you. 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We know theyre going to be saved. But the thing we care about is, how are they going to be saved . What do these people have to do to save them . That is whats riveting. The 90s brought us a new look at some previously thought to be wellknown stories. When you look at the film jfk, the movie is about what we can trust and who we can trust. Why was kennedy killed . Who benefitted . Who has the power to cover it up . And what oliver stone is saying is you cant trust anybody. 876 the nation was captivated by this game show, about the truth and the perversion of truth in the name of entertainment. Youre young, youre from a prominent family. Kids would run to do their homework to be like charles van doran. If you were a kid, would you want to be an annoying jewish guy with a side wall haircut . As i kid, i lived through that quiz show period. Three points. I wanted John Turturro to play herb stempel, a guy from a lower class area and rose to fame. And then certain people were beginning to get tired of him because he wasnt that pleasant to look at. But no one could beat the guy. He was so sharp. Thats when they came up with the idea, lets find someone that looks good and well give him the answers. You are our new champion for 20,000. And that cruelty was something i wanted to show. The power of money and personality. So to me, that was a story that really had to be told. We didnt land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us, landed right on top of us. Malcolm x is spike lees epic. It really felt like the film that he was made to make. And i think he felt a certain urgency in making it. Spike had the good fortune of casting Denzel Washington at the pinnacle of his movie stardom. I think its his best performance. Denzel washington is one of the alltime greats. What he does in his artistry, painting a portrait of an individual, its astounding. If the socalled negro in america was truly an american citizen, we wouldnt have a racial problem. If the emancipation proclamation was authentic, we wouldnt have a race problem. Watching a guy like denzel as malcolm x, top of the game, intimidating in many ways. Mr. Becket, come in. When we made philadelphia, he was malcolm x already. That was like starting a movie with Marlon Brando and just seeing the godfather the night before. I have aids. Oh. Oh, im sorry. Philadelphia was an important film. Denzel washington represents the audiences apprehension with people with aids. How did they find out you have the aids . One of the partners noticed a lesion on my forehead. So as his character spends more time with tom hanks, were starting to see him as more than his sexuality or his disease. Lets get it out of the closet because this case is not just about aids, is it . So lets talk about what this case is really all about. The general publics hatred, our loathing, our fear of homosexuals. He can bring the audience on that journey to say we dont need to fear people. We dont need to despise them or stigmatize them. My name is forrest, forrest gump. Forrest gump. Its a very rare thing for me to read a script and not be able to put it down. Forrest gump is a marvelous look at how history happens. Forrest gump, john lennon. Its a delightful play on the contingency and accident that shapes our world. First americans to visit the land of china in like a million years or Something Like that. Somebody said world peace was in our hands. But all i did was play pingpong. That film embodies everything that makes tom great. Hes fantastic dramatic actor. Hes a magnificent comedy actor. I cant think of another actor living or dead who could have ever done that part. By the 1990s, the median age of the people who served in world war ii was around 70. They were growing old, and they were disappearing. And there was a powerful sense of nostalgia. And we saw a lot of retrospective looks at aspects of world war ii. This was the time when people started talking about the greatest generation. Saving private ryan was a film i was going to make someday in my life. My dad used to have his band of brothers from the air corps come over to the house every year. The first time i ever heard grown men cry was at these reunions. It was all about the trauma they had suffered in world war ii. Ill see you on the beach. I felt it was necessary for me to tell the experience of veterans and what they had gone through when they were a little bit older than i was at the time. [ sound of gunfire ] when moviegoers saw the men disembark, the bullets were going through the water and hitting them in the water. There was a powerful realism to that. Its spielberg saying, what does it feel like to have gone on that beach . Your nose is pressed right into the savagery. In private ryan, at the beginning, it was fantastic. I was ill for two weeks watching that. I couldnt believe he did that. Sir, i dont have a good feeling about this one. When was the last time you felt good about anything . This ability to entertain and reach audiences more than one way, with the same movie, saving private ryan is a great example of that because its exciting, its thrilling, its suspenseful. But it also is a reminder of the price of that kind of warfare, the cost to the soul, and who winds up living and dying and bearing those scars in that kind of a conflict. What is that . Of course. Thats a nice sheen on it. Thank you. Very nice. I would get you one but the man who made it is probably dead. I dont know. My family, when i was growing up, talked about the holocaust, although they never used that word. They used to call it the great murders. I shot the whole film documentary style. It was the first film i had ever shot like that. And it became less of a film, more of just a life journey, a living, learning experience making that film. We all felt we were shooting in a graveyard. And so the amount of reverence of the crew and the cast. I cast liam neeson at the last minute based on a play i saw him in on broadway. And i thought he was the best possible schindler i could possibly find, and he was. He saved my life. Yes, he did. God bless. Yeah. God bless you. Oskar schindler was a deal maker, and he didnt really care that much for his workers. But there was an inevitable metaph metapho metaphorphosis that unlocked his empathy. Instead of being just one who gathers wealth for his own pleasure, he started to spend his money to save lives. I could have got more. I could have got more. The totality of the meaning of that film, the fact that it created awareness in the world of an era in history that had been forgotten, that it denied the deniers and allowed us to really mean it when we say never again, schindlers list is the greatest experience ive had as a filmmaker. I see your face looking into mine and when you make me smile meet acqua panna with its unique journey through the nature of tuscany. I feel much better acqua panna. Meet the smoothest taste on earth. Groundhog day was a very characterdriven comedy. The bill murray character just keeps waking up. Hey, phil . Having to relive the same day. Now, dont you tell me you dont remember me because i sure as heck fire remember you. Not a chance. Ned usually when theres some kind of strange convention, its explained. Phil connors, i thought that was you. Youre in a time machine or somebody cast a spell. Phil connors but this just happened. And nobody minded. Phil connors. Ned . The movie is perfect. Its also so obviously for bill. Fill, like the groundhog phil . Yeah, like the groundhog phil. Look for your shadow there, pal morons, your bus is leaving. Its hard to be a likeable dick and then win the audience over by the end. Bill is really good at that. Oh, thank you, young man. Its nothing, maam, just be comfortable, all right . To me, bill murray is one of the great comedy actors that has ever been. How long will you be staying with us . Indefinitely. Im being sued for divorce. Hes picky, which is perfect, because then he finds his way into somebody really extraordinary. Whats the secret, max . The secret . Yeah. You seem to have it pretty figured out. Secret, i dont know. I think youve just got to find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life. Wes anderson, his films are like opening a jewelry box and you can take out all the little trinkets and look at them, and theyre sparkly and theyre joyful. Whats going on in here . Its so rare when someone comes along and creates their own esthetic, which is truly unique. Me walking a long and lonely mile i really related to rushmore in terms of having bad grades and not being good in school but having like a passion for something. All right, next scene. Frank, you enter stage right with a bag of cocaine. When rushmore came out, i wrote a fan letter to wes. It was the perfect film, laugh out loud humor with an actual pathos. You like your nurses uniform, guy. These are o. R. Scrubs. Oh, are they . Comedy in the 90s will be gigantic. Shall we shag now or shall we shag later . Its going to be over the top and its going to fill the frame. Why dont you just go home . Thats your home. Are you too good for your home . Answer me and youre going to get adam sandler knocking out one movie after the next. Sidney and scott are newlyweds. Whooptydo if you look at the scenes that are memorable from Something Like waynes world, theyre big scenes. Theyre heads bobbing back and forth. Theyre not afraid to do Something Big to get a laugh. Smoking and then all of a sudden one day, this guy who is as big as the screen shows up, and its jim carrey. And he turned into a top Hollywood Star because he is unafraid to be big. Even as hes doing these over the top things where you think, hes talking through his behind, im not going to watch this. Excuse me, i would like to ass you a few questions. Yet there you are, youre watching, and youre laughing. Just like me they long to be hes looking at you. Whats he oh, no. I dont have to be too intellectual about it, i just laugh my ass off. Ow part of it was like, i cant believe theyre doing that. Whats that bubble there . What do you think . How in the hell did you the farley brothers pushed the rules so far that you can do that . Something about mary is this anarchic comedy that had joyous heart to it. Maybe you should move down here and marry me. It introduced cameron diaz as the ultimate cool girl. Ill have the double decaf cappuccino. Ill have a half double decap half caf with a twist of lemon. You had lots and lots of really funny, bankable