"I wanted to do a movie that takes place in this milieu—about the American criminal, about the prison ethos in America, about what’s going on in America in 2017. And the only other person I want to be in it is Buddy Duress.”
Josh Safdie
CLASS TRIP: ON “HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT” AND “SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS”
Sturges’ flights of verbal fancy are as close as the American cinema comes to Shakespeare, and his turns of phrase are as sharp as a shuriken.