comment #1

Absinth Quell Pro says ...

Great stuff. I only wish it were video instead of audio. Gallo needs his own talk show, where the guests only come on once because he is apt to tear almost anyone a new asshole. He'd be like the reverse Arsenio Hall or Byron Allen: come by the couch and get torn a new one by the coolest guy in the room.

comment #2

Helms Deep says ...

Is he the coolest guy in the room?

comment #3

Absinth Quell Pro says ...

Yes. I don't care if he's a prick or a tyrant or right wing or insane. He's brutally honest, and Hollywood hates honesty.

comment #4

Helms Deep says ...

But he slags Coppola and his daughter, and yet, a few years later shows up in his movie. not cool. really lame actually.

comment #5

Cde. says ...

I wonder how Coppola feels hearing this interview AFTER releasing a film with Gallo front and center...

comment #6

Kenyan Born US President says ...

Gallo's dead smack on about Spike Jonze and Sofia Coppola.

comment #7

CitizenKanedForPostingThoughts says ...

Yeah, I have to side with HD here. There's admittedly a fine line between brutal honesty and just letting the verbal diarrhea spew endlessly from your mouth. When you call FFC a "fat pig," and Sofia "a chick who'll fuck anyone who says 'hey baby,' " I think he fits squarely in the camp of the latter.

Dude has all of the worst tendencies of Tarantino (navel-gazing, aesthetic taste for garbage, droning on endlessly about everything), with none of the his actual ability to personally amuse, nor his actual filmmaking chops.

comment #8

CitizenKanedForPostingThoughts says ...

And what exactly is he dead smack on about regarding Jonze? Sure, he may very well be the "least-interesting" person at parties, but maybe that's because Spike realizes that listening (i.e. absorbing) is a much more important quality than talking when it comes to being a good writer, director, or anything creative, really.

Maybe if Gallo would spend a little more time opening up his mind to other people's perspectives or obsessions, he may one day direct something as brilliant as Being John Malkovich or Where the Wild Things Are (or hell, even as fun as the Beastie Boys' Sabotage music vid), but I certainly won't be holding my breath.

comment #9

hiviper says ...

Gallo is all about being "shocking" and self-promotion. Let him make a movie that doesn't bore the shit out of me and I'll change my mind about him. Surpising you are taken in by his bullshit, Wells.

comment #10

Dave says ...

if you haven't read vincent gallo's store site, you're missing out on some serious entertainment. its busted now but have a look at his 'miscellaneous' category from the archive. i'd include some choice quotes but there are just too many and i don't know where to start. in all honesty, this is right up there with the texas department of corrections last meals database in my favourite 'wtf?!' things i've ever seen on the internet.

comment #11

Absinth Quell Pro says ...

"However, female couples of the lesbian persuasion can enjoy a Vincent Gallo evening together for $100,000. $200,000 buys the lesbos a weekend. A weekend that will have them second-guessing."

Yes!

comment #12

Eloi Wrath says ...

The Coppola stuff is hilarious. The fact that Coppala actually wanted to work with him several years afterwards suggests that Gallo is known for insincere bullshit and nobody really takes him seriously. He's likely a J.T. LeRoy type figure with his inside-baseball LA gossip. He's funny but I don't believe a thing he says. He's clearly well looked after in Hollywood.

comment #13

Eloi Wrath says ...

Imagine if Emma Roberts was the daughter of Eric and Julia.

comment #14

bootsy says ...

Negro? What is this the 1960's. Just say what you really wanted to say Vincent. I would have respected you a little bit.

comment #15

Bukowski20 says ...

When this guy starts to make good movies I'll start giving a shit about what he has to say.

comment #16

Anthony Thorne says ...

Floating the notion that Eric Roberts consensually fucked - or raped - sis Julia back in the day is pretty out there. Another laugh riot is this section from the link above for buyers of Gallo's sperm donations:

"Though a fan of Franco Harris, Derek Jeter, Lenny Kravitz and Lena Horne, Mr. Gallo does not want to be part of that type of integration. In fact, for the next 30 days, he is offering a $50,000 discount to any potential female purchaser who can prove she has naturally blonde hair and blue eyes. Anyone who can prove a direct family link to any of the German soldiers of the mid-century will also receive this discount."

I read somewhere that Gallo onetime recorded a scabrous commentary track for BUFFALO 66, that the techs in the recording booth were laughing their heads off at Gallo's comments, and that it was pretty clear by the end of the session that the track would never see the light of day. There's a Gallo commentary on the Japanese DVD of BROWN BUNNY, but I've never heard it.

comment #17

Absinth Quell Pro says ...

For all of the reasons Thorne just pointed out, this guy should have a talk show. I don't give a shit what movies he makes (though I really did enjoy Buffalo 66. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about having this borderline rabid, insane sleazeball interviewing and fighting with celebrities on a nightly basis. It would only last one season, but man, would it be entertaining.

comment #18

Jeffmc2000 says ...

There was movie where he played a David Letterman-style talk-show host (I forget the title---See You Tomorrow, or Talk To You Later, or one of those other mean-nothing titles). That's probably as close as you're going to get to even seeing him ON a talk show again.

That web page is funny, and I get the impression it's one of those "Just kidding!---maaaaybe." type deals, where he's got plausible deniability, but hey, if some rich broad or a couple of lesbians go for the bait, why not?

Someone needs to cast Gallo and Joachim Phoenix in a buddy comedy immediately.

comment #19

CitizenKanedForPostingThoughts says ...

Joachim???

That's seriously not a bad pitch, but you just butchered his first name nearly as bad as Wells always stumbles over his surname ("Pheoooooonix!").

comment #20

matt cousens says ...

Fishing With Vincent

comment #21

animal bones says ...

what a bore

comment #22

Jeffmc2000 says ...

Ha! You know, I was pretty sure it was Joachin but my spell check disagreed with me. It had no problem with Joachim though, so I figured it knew better. Phoenix is easy to spell, but I can't blame Wells for not reading as many X-Men comics as I have.

comment #23

Glenn Kenny says ...

Caveat emptor: According to Wells, in this interview "He says some stuff about Eric Roberts and Julia Roberts that you may not believe, but you have to at least consider it." If you actually listen to the interview, you hear Gallo asking his interviewer whether or not he, the interviewer, thinks that Eric Roberts "fucked" Julia Roberts. In other words, it's not as if Gallo's pushing some insider knowledge; he's just asking for a scurrilous rumor to be confirmed. This hardly constitutes "stuff" about anyone and is just pretty much typical hateful Gallo nonsense. As to the larger existential question of why Wells believes that we "have to" "consider" Gallo's musings/ravings on the subject, that's a bit of a mystery, I'd say.

My sole conversation with Gallo was on Sepember 11, 2001, during which he said to me, "I don't know, I've been feeling pretty estranged from New York lately, so I don't really care that much." Yeah, he's plenty of "fun" to "speak to."

comment #24

Thunderballs says ...

Gallo is fucking awesome, so of course all the haters come out. If any of you had even half the talent or chutzpah of Vincent Gallo you wouldn't be whining on some fucking internet message board, you'd actually be out in the world making something.

Buffalo '66 is 1,000 times better than all of Spike Jonze's movies put together. Know why? Cause it's personal and real, has style and is shot magnificently. Spike Jonze is a hack. All his movies stink, the lone exception being Malkovich, and that movie is merely okay, but pretty rough to sit through after the first viewing.

Gallo said not one thing that is false in that whole interview. I heard it a while ago so I can't remember everything, but I also love the part where he talks about how Scorsese has turned into utter shit recently. Truer words were never spoken. All hail the Gallo!

comment #25

animal bones says ...

thunderballs and gallo - douchebags in arms

comment #26

CitizenKanedForPostingThoughts says ...

Yeah...look, I'm not going to deny that interview wasn't "amusing" -- at least in the sense that it was never exactly "boring," but not one false thing? Really??? (Noted, Sunday must be opposite day in La Casa de Thunderballs).

I'm normally all for this kind of blustery rambling, but I think there's only about one thing he says that I found to be irrevocably true: Gallo's no fucking artist.

comment #27

Kilmer Park says ...

Thunderball is Gallo's swastika'd lesbian spermal dustbin...

comment #28

Thunderballs says ...

CitzenKaned is the only person worth responding to here, cause animal bones is a racist pig and not worthy of attention, and Kilmer Park is a waste of flesh.

CitizenKaned, as I said, it's been a few months since I've heard this interview, what in your mind is flat out false that he says? You think he's lying when he says he knew Spike Jonze?

comment #29

Yuval says ...

Hey Thunderballs, I've pretty much never agreed with anything you've written, but "Gallo said not one thing that is false in that whole interview"?
Let's see-
"Yeah, he's (Jason Schwartzman) a kid, everybody's good as a kid" Referencing Rushmore.
"Steven Soderbergh sucks"
"Wes Anderson sucks"
"Spike Jonze sucks"
"James Gray sucks"
"He's (Spike Jonze) is a rich JEW from the upper east side, who was fascinated with NE-G-ROS... listen to me, he's a rich JEW from New York... as a flimmaker he's nothing, he's a zero"

comment #30

Kilmer Park says ...

Thunderballs, you such a sourpuss - but of course you are right - whenever I go to a New York party I'm just so sure that I KNOW everyone. So Gallo must be right...knowing he is such a great listener and seeks the knowledge and insights of others for the bettterment of his art...

Do I think Gallo lies? Need I respond?
Gallo is a low-rent Cassavettes, whereas Jonze plays merrily in the fields sown by Tati, Jodorowsky, Kubrick and Fellini.

Take that MF!

comment #31

George Prager says ...

BUFFALO 66: Better than BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, ADAPTATION...(I fell asleep during WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE...it was so fucking boring.).

comment #32

animal bones says ...

actual footage of george prager

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNXEs2JFe-Y&feature=related

comment #33

Kieslowski says ...

Jeffmc2000, your idea of a Gallo/joaquin Phoenix movie is sheer brilliance!!

I think Gallo is full of shit but he is seriously entertaining to listen to, much like Courtney Love.

He does have balls for calling out Scorsese and his shitty movies in the last decade.

comment #34

Absinth Quell Pro says ...

33 replies and not a single chime-in from Lex about Gallo? How could this be? How could Lex not totally worship this guy, who has such a big mouth he can talk actresses into literally blowing him (or a stunt cock) onscreen?

GALLO POWER.

comment #35

Bukowski20 says ...

"Gallo is fucking awesome, so of course all the haters come out. If any of you had even half the talent or chutzpah of Vincent Gallo you wouldn't be whining on some fucking internet message board, you'd actually be out in the world making something."

The same internet message board that you whine on all the time.

Gallo isn't talented or interesting.

And Thunderballs is not only racist, he's homophobic and sexist as well. Fact.

comment #36

Thunderballs says ...

Bukowski, you can try to turn your own biases around on me, but it won't work, we all see through your racist facade. You are a racist. Just admit it, get help for it, and move on. Life is too short to be filled with so much hate, you racist.

comment #37

Bukowski20 says ...

Thunderballs confided in me that all gay men deserve to die of AIDS. He said gay women were fine as long as they were attractive. The "dykes", as he put it, could die along with the men.

I thought the entire conversation was pretty weird considering I had only asked him what he thought of Christina Ricci's performance in Prozac Nation.

comment #38

animal bones says ...

anybody who capitalizes the word 'power' is a bigger douche than gallo

comment #39

Thunderballs says ...

Bukowski is a racist.

comment #40

Bukowski20 says ...

Thanks for accidentally deleting my post, Wells.

Thunderballs is a terrorist.

comment #41

sean says ...

Why bother, he's cool.

Sean