"As anyone familiar with my work knows all too well, it's a lot more comfortable for me to ramble on for thousands of words than it is to be concise, and so the only way I could steady myself in a situation as nerve-wracking as this one was to hold half of Hollywood hostage for a long, long speech about the relationship between critics and filmmakers."
"So long, in fact, that Jafar Panahi and Paul Thomas Anderson both later roasted me about it from the stage, with the latter declaring that, for the next calendar year, I've forfeited the right to criticize movies for their length. Just to make sure that I can never repress the memory, I've conveniently been provided with a picture of the exact moment that happened:"
The NYFCC chair emceed the awards dinner at Tao Downtown in Manhattan. The chair arranged presenters including Ben Stiller, Lupita Nyong'o, and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Duties included opening the evening with introductory remarks about the event's purpose. The chair delivered an unusually long speech focused on the relationship between critics and filmmakers. Filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Paul Thomas Anderson roasted the chair from the stage afterward. Anderson joked that the chair had forfeited the right to criticize movies for their length for the next year. A photograph captured the exact moment of the onstage roast.
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