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'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

— Andrew Gross

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.

— Caleb Landry Jones

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

— Joy Page

I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut.

— Alex Winter

I like a little movie I did in the early nineties called 'Mortal Thoughts.' The part was hardly written, but I learned a lot making it. No one remembers it.

— Bruce Willis

My favourite pastime used to be sitting on a park bench watching people. But after 'Jagged Little Pill,' the eyeballs turned, and I was the watched one.

— Alanis Morissette

I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.

— Peter O'Toole

'The Exoricist' and 'The Shining,' there is some horrific stuff, and it's mostly what you put in your own head, which I find amazing.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.

— Denis Villeneuve

✗Opposing Perspectives

The Dumas memoirs - which I also discovered when I was a kid - had a big impact on me.

— Tom Reiss

'Out of Sight' is one of my favorite films ever. Love Steven Soderbergh. 'Goodfellas' was a huge influence on me in terms of the use of camera. 'Black Orpheus,' a beautiful love story that very few people actually have seen, and that was an influence on 'Beyond the Lights,' too, in terms of the look of the film.

— Gina Prince-Bythewood