MGMT + Tame Impala

“There’s not really any new bands that make me go, “Wow! This is great!” and this was the first time this had happened to me in a while. We toured with them and they were kindred spirits, but way cooler than us!” — Andrew VanWyngarden

“As soon as we met them it was like we met our brothers from another continent.” — Ben Goldwasser

“If I see a band I love, I always think, “They’ve got the right idea, we’re doing it wrong. I gotta sell my shit out and do it like them.”… MGMT is probably a big one, because, before we even knew them, we fell in love with their album, and their pop sensibility had a big effect on us.” — Kevin Parker

“Man, these guys play their instruments better than any other people their age that I’ve ever seen.” — Jay Watson

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I had a bunch of ideas for what that song could be, but I didn’t feel it was right for me to give Ryan a song to give to Michelle. And so I gave him a challenge and let him pick out a song for her. Ryan has a great taste and the song he picked out was You and Me by Penny and the Quarters. And I thought it was just great. So I told Ryan to keep the song a secret, and never share it with Michelle until we were shooting. So they day came to shoot the scene, Ryan had the song in his back pocket, and we captured the real moment where one person gives an other person the gift of music. The gift, because it came from Ryan, was personal. Michelle was touched deeply by it. What happens on the screen is a real, living and breathing, intimate moment.

Derek Cianfrance

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