His favorite films are John Ford's The Searchers, Michael Curtiz's
Casablanca, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and North by Northwest, Raoul
Walsh's White Heat, Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai, Howard Hawks'
Rio Bravo, Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life, Billy Wilder's Fedora and
John Milius' The Wind and the Lion.