I haven't seen an A in the film section in a grip, I think I was expecting a B or B+ however. But I honestly don't think Mann has ever made an A film.

Everything goes by so fast, it's like the greatest demo reel of all time for a guy who never needed one.

Oh I drink ginger ale like it's going outta style. However, Goya's paintings frighten me and I will not partake in the ginger beer of a man who glorifies acts of son devouring.

I'm in way over my head here.

The nut ale makes you nut?

I love a good ginger beer.
And never I know where to find one.

I wore that VHS out as a kid, it starred Sean Lennon, MJ turned into a robot complete with sherm perm, then a car, and then a spaceship. Plus the Boys (an old New Jack swing boy band) reenacted the Bad video. And there's some pretty killer Will Vinton claymation stuff throughout.

Phil Lynott was half black, he even wrote a song called "Ode to a Black Man".

The Strokes
I was in eighth grade when I first saw that video, when the lights came up and there were the coolest guys I'd ever seen in my life, playing the coolest song I'd ever heard in my life, I gotta say, I was forever changed. It's a little embarrassing now, but back then they were the band for me.

What? The Transformers like to fuck. Doesn't everybody?

They're fucking hideous
The old Transformers designs looked more solid, like there was some actual weight to them, the new ones look like they can hardly stand themselves up, like if I flicked one it'd just fall over and break into a thousand pieces, and so many of them are just big wads of grey. It's like a taking…

Hmmm, sounds rad, will do, thanks.

Big Wolf on Campus
I was like 11 when that shit was on and I still knew it was time to change the channel when that awful theme song started up. I think it came on after Pee Wee reruns or Mr. Bean or something on Fox Family that was watchable.

Four Brothers/UGK
Isn't that bad either, it's like a modern day grindhouse flick.

Ennio Morricone
I find him the easiest to listen to separated from the context of film. I put Titoli on all the time just because it's a good cowboy song, and the stuff he did with Peter Tevis is down right poppy.

Wow, he's right
everything does cost money, I never thought about it that way. I somehow get the impression that it was very hard not to laugh during this interview, I wish the whole thing had been audio. I wish he hadn't dodged the music question, I want him to release an album so badly now.

Shark Tale Vs. Finding Nemo

I'll also defend Frailty, a pipe sent down from God, a fucking pipe, it was hilarious, and the part where Paxton has to kill a "real person" is genuinely unsettling. I saw it recently and it held up just fine, a real engaging flick.

Yeah, that was heavy stuff, I needed that.

This is going to make me sound like an asshole
but here goes, you know how some girls listen to whatever their boyfriends are into? Well Brodi Dalle makes music that sounds like whoever she's married to.