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I always felt that with an Antoine Doinel film, Truffaut was taking a vacation, that Francois could relax when making a Doinel film. All of the language came to him very easily. 'The 400 Blows,' I felt, was a collage of all his childhood experiences. Every time he felt an Antoine Doinel film was necessary, he'd make one.

If you look back to the most spectacular blow ups in history, you can always tie them to a couple things: They were extraordinary complicated strategies that maybe even the practitioners themselves didn't understand, and they were overleveraged.

There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.

'Napoleon Dynamite' blew up my career.

I found out I really love brutal fight scenes.

I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.

'Virgin Suicides' was such a big movie to me as a teenage girl. It blew me away.

When you first see MacGruber working on the bomb, in the initial opening credits, that bomb was a replica of the 'Die Hard' bomb. The love runs deep for '80s action movies.