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"If you love films and care about filmmakers, you'll have a hard time putting this book down. These lively conversations reveal just how much one generation of filmmakers influences the next - and how a single movie can change the course of a young person's life and career."
-Leonard Maltin, author of Leanord Martin's Movie Guide -
"A great and provocative read. Elder begins with a simple question and leads a wide variety of filmmakers down all sorts of unexpected paths. Why do we respond so passionately, even irrationally, to the movies that change our lives? The wonderful thing about being a critic or a lifelong movie lover is that life changes all the time in relation to the spells being cast on the screen. Elder's book honors that alchemic relationship many times over. It's addictive."
-Michael Phillips, film critic, Chicago Tribune
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Pete Docter on Paper Moon
“It wasn’t about gratuitous whacking people in the head with a two-by-four. It was funny because the moments were so truthful, and I recognized them as moments in my own life. Not literally, but in some relatable way.”
Jay Duplass on Raising Arizona
“It’s an inspired piece of art. I don’t know how to quantify that or how to even talk about it, but I know that when they made this piece of art there was so much love, all pistons firing. Because they were creating things in ways that hadn’t been done before, and they had to ignore the fears about why it may or may not hold up.”
John Landis on The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
“The costumes are silly and the genie is kind of stupid, but it’s just got a wonderful sense of fun and adventure. I think it’s a wonderful movie. Even now, with some of the monsters, people say, ‘Look how silly they look!’ But they work for me.”
Kevin Smith on Slacker
“The idea, the whole idea behind the movie, was very strange but insanely liberating for me and very inspiring. Because it was like, ‘So you can make a movie about anything, apparently.’”