Movies Are Like My Parents with Ari Aster & Bill Hader

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4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Topics covered include: Steven Soderbergh’s greatest commentary tracks, the first Mission Impossible as a perfect film, writing movies for actors not executives, Ari telling Bill the idea for Eddington outside of an Italian restaurant, Bill laughing at the sound of Toni Collette’s head falling off in Hereditary, being intuitive and impulsive, David Lynch as a great spiritual teacher, using genre film as a shield, Ari’s deep research process in New Mexico before making Eddington, the genius comedy of Christopher Morris, walking into the meat grinder, unmade horror scripts, Bill’s cameo in Beau is Afraid, going beyond the breaking point, Steven Spielberg as the king of shot sequencing, childhood obsession with screenplays, Sturges on Sturges, Bill filming shorts as a kid with his sister in Tulsa, meeting Scorsese at SNL, and 50+ films that shaped them.

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0:00.0	I'm Ari Aster.
0:01.3	And I'm Bill Hader.
0:02.6	And this is the A24 podcast.
0:05.5	Yeah, we did recreate the Steven Soderberg, Lim Dobbs,
0:09.9	the Limey commentary.
0:11.0	The commentary?
0:11.7	We're getting a fight.
0:12.5	We're Lim Dubs.
0:13.4	I never liked him.
0:14.5	Just airs all of his grievances, right?
0:17.3	That is the best commentary.
0:19.7	I think it might be the best commentary because you're watching it and enjoying the movie.
0:23.8	And then in the middle of it, yeah.
0:25.4	I think it starts because Peter Fonda has a picture of Territ Stamps' daughter, like, in his house.
0:32.3	Right.
0:32.7	And Soderberg is like, yeah, that covers it.
0:36.1	Yeah, yeah.
0:36.3	And Lend Dobs is like, yeah, instead of her entire backstory that I spent years writing, we just put a photo of her.
0:42.3	It's like every screener has that photo.
0:44.5	He goes, he would never have that photo in his house.
0:46.6	If he was somewhat responsible for her death, why the fuck would he have a picture of her
0:50.3	in her house?
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