Performance

Martin Scorsese on Ti West's X trilogy:

[West's] The Innkeepers (2011), was the first West film to catch Scorsese's eye; after seeing it, he told me, "I thought: OK, I want to see everything this guy does." The film reminded him of the work of Val Lewton, who was put in charge of RKO's "horror unit" in the early 1940s and given a simple mandate: The films had to be under $150,000 and 70 minutes, and the studio heads would pick the titles; otherwise he could do what he wanted. The films he oversaw, starting with Cat People in 1942, were atmospheric and psychological, the tonal opposite of the screamy monster movies put out by Universal at the time. The amazing thing about The Innkeepers, Scorsese said, was that "you could eliminate the ghost story and the film would work without it, which echoes the way Val Lewton made his films: He always made sure that the core story had to stand on its own, apart from the supernatural elements."

Róisín Murphy on many things, including guilt:

The last time I cried was at Christmas. I was sick and coughing in the middle of the night and it wouldn't go away. I didn't have cancer, though, just a chest infection. I'm a bit of a hypochondriac. It's a guilt thing. I think to myself, "You can't be having this much fun and not pay some kind of price for it."

The Bear's Abby Elliott on being unfunny:

Natalie is the most nuanced character Elliott has ever played. Her scenes involve subtext, a professional first. "My career has been all text," she said. "I've done things where I'm explaining exactly how I'm feeling, like so many times."