"I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made, or Bergman"
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Then Roth pivots from performer to auteurs: Kubrick and Bergman, two directors synonymous with total worlds. Kubrick is the cold eye, the geometry of power, the way characters get boxed in by systems, rooms, institutions. Bergman is the hot interior, the psychic close-up, the moral ache of faces. Roth’s pairing implies he’s not choosing between style and soul; he wants both, and he wants them in complete doses, not highlights.
The phrasing matters: “did” for Grant, “made” for Kubrick and Bergman. Acting is action; directing is authorship. Roth quietly places himself in between - an actor who thinks like a filmmaker, hungry for the whole grammar of cinema. Contextually, it fits a performer who came up in an era when movie literacy became a badge of seriousness: if you’re going to be on screen, you’d better know the canon, not as homework but as fuel. The subtext is ambition with discipline: admiration as a daily practice, not a mood.
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"I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made, or Bergman." FixQuotes, 17 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-will-watch-everything-that-cary-grant-did-or-166365/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.





