About this episode
The great filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro has a new adaptation of Frankenstein . He saw the 1931 film when he was 7. “I realized I understood my faith better through Frankenstein than through Sunday Mass,” he tells Terry Gross. “And I decided at age seven that the creature of Frankenstein was gonna be my personal avatar and my personal messiah.” His other films include Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water . Also, we hear from Cameron Crowe, who wrote and directed Jerry Maguire , Say Anything and the semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous , about writing for Rolling Stone starting at age 15. His new memoir is about being a naive teen, exposed to the excesses of rock musicians. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy