>> ruth gordon and bud played in it, an 80-year-old woman and an 18-year-old suicidal young man. >> he learned how to live with the idea we all will die at some point and we don't know when, and it's so beautiful. i can hardly talk about it without choking up. >> that sound track mattered a lot to that movie. there was this marriage of weirdness, darkness, death, comedy, sex and ted stevens was just sort of a magical thing, you know? >> really interested in the eccentric and outsider and misunderstood. and i think in all his films you