Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up.
In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even by vulture standards - probably a stupid vulture, and that was frustrating.
It's hard to get away from being old. I still talk about the TV set.
You don't have to have a true story to make a true story movie.
Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing.
People respond to real problems from the heart.