Does he ever talk about his influences by Billy Wilder?
ORLANDO: Of course. I was watching “The Apartment.” I was driving from the airport to the Brown hotel in Louisville. The tire had a blow-out but I was watching The Apartment so I didn’t even notice it. Jack Lemmon was a great frame of reference for Drew, as was Cary Grant. Especially in the moments with Claire, where the guy grabs the girl with that Cary Grant-esque thing. And Billy Wilder is a huge influence on Cameron. There’s a real feeling of an old movie within this contemporary kind of movie that you see, this comedic kind of film that touches on so many different areas. I think you can see it more than once to get more from it. I’ve seen it a few times now – I haven’t seen the cut that you guys have seen – but it’s got, um, this whole thing of success and failure, life and death. The movie really begins with an ending and ends with a beginning like Cameron has said. We can all relate to that thing, of [being someone] going out to make enough money to buy a house, buy a new car,
