Alex Gibney on Luis Buñuel, director of The Exterminating Angel: “You think, ‘What’s going on here?’ There’s a method to his madness, but you’re kind of astonished. You’re learning to be astonished as the film goes on, to expect the unexpected.”

“Griffin Dunne is great in the film, but David Naughton I think is brilliant in it. It’s too easy, unfortunately, to gloss over his contribution. But for the film to work in any way at all, it’s gotta drip down from the leading man. Something’s gotta hold it together.”

“I think Orson was very much interested in power, in what power does to people, what money does to people, what lack of love does to people. I think he was interested in all that.”

“There are two kinds of satire. There’s Juvenalian satire and there’s Horatian satire. One of them says the world is a shitty place but in the end we’ll all be taken care of, and the other says the world is a shitty place and in the end we’re all fucked. One sees the glass as half-empty and the other sees the glass as half-full. Some may accuse Terry of seeing the glass as half-empty, but I think, really, in his heart, he sees it as half-full.”