Jeff Houck

The Tampa Tribune’s food writer since 2005, Jeff Houck covers the way people live through their food. He also hosts the Table Conversations food podcast and believes that everything crunchy is good.

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Food, The Swiss Army Knife Of Metaphors

Posted Oct 5, 2006 by Jeff Houck

Updated Oct 5, 2006 at 04:21 PM

From a New York Times Magazine Q&A with Warren Beatty:

Twenty-five years after its release, “Reds,” your film about a generation of American radicals caught up in the romance of the Russian Revolution, is enjoying a new life. On Wednesday, it will be shown at the New York Film Festival, and later this month, it will be released on DVD for the first time. Why is it that you declined to do a single interview when the film originally came out?

I felt that a picture should stand on its own. I felt I might get in its way.

In that case, why are you speaking about it now?

Because I believe that the picture has found its mark, and at this point I don’t run a risk of distracting from the movie.

You never seemed that cautious about speaking about “Bonnie and Clyde,” “Shampoo,” “Bugsy” or any of your other two dozen-odd films.

I’ve always felt that talking publicly about movies when they come out is a little like walking into a kitchen when a soufflé has risen to its peak and stamping your foot.

And, later in the interview:

You yourself, as a left-leaning activist, have been mentioned as a possible political candidate for decades.

Rather than run for public office, I would prefer to eat my own knee.