Interview: Chris Butler & Sam Fell…ParaNorman…7/27/12
[Fell:] I think this is probably the most ambitious stop-frame project. I mean, you know, it’s all hand-made. You don’t get anything for free. Everything is built. Every blade of grass is cut by hand...
View ArticleInterview: Zachary Booth & Ira Sachs…Keep the Lights On, Damages…6/21/12
[Booth:] An idea that Ira tossed around a lot to me when I was working on this character was control...to find those places where you could be possessively loving of someone and do it because you care...
View ArticleInterview: Martin McDonagh & Sam Rockwell…Seven Psychopaths…10/6/12
[McDonagh:] You can never have too much Catholic guilt.
View ArticleInterview: Rich Moore…Wreck-It Ralph, The Simpsons…10/17/2012
I knew from an early point that if we were making a movie in these big fantastical worlds that it needed to be grounded by something that was existential and something that was very personal and...
View ArticleInterview: Ben Lewin…The Sessions…10/5/2012
I stumbled across this article, ‘On Seeing a Sex Surrogate.‘ And...it was a bit like a ‘burning bush‘ experience; it had a profound emotional impact on me. And I thought: if I could reproduce that, in...
View ArticleInterview: Helen Hunt…The Sessions, Then She Found Me…10/5/2012
That positive, enthusiastic outlook, combined with the topic of sex, seemed like a great thing to be able to play.
View ArticleInterview: John Hawkes…The Sessions, Lincoln…10/5/2012
I feel, for any storyteller, anyone making any piece of art, the more specific you can be, and the more truthful detail you can imbue into what you‘re doing, the more universal your story becomes, oddly.
View ArticleInterview: Robert Zemeckis…Flight…10/24/2012
I‘ve never done heroin, but heroin addicts say it‘s always trying to chase the euphoria of that very first hit...For a filmmaker...that first movie is such a grand exhilarating adventure, and you‘re...
View ArticleInterview: Ang Lee…Life of Pi, Hulk, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon…10/15/2012
My role, I think, as much as the book, is provide a platform so people can talk about the irrational.
View ArticleInterview: Derek Cianfrance…The Place Beyond the Pines, Blue Valentine…2/27/13
When I saw Gospel According to St. Matthew, I started getting heart palpitations...It was the best movie I had ever seen...I had to crawl up to the projection booth and call my girlfriend and have her...
View ArticleInterview: Shane Carruth…Upstream Color, Primer…2/24/13
None of us are doing peer-reviewed stuff on the things that we believe; we’re just sort of swallowing whatever gets published in Scientific American, or whatever, which is not a horrible thing,...
View ArticleInterview: Robert Wagner & Robert Osborne…The Pink Panther…4/16/13
[Wagner:] Blake...had it in his mind. But he used a lot of what happened and what the actors would bring to it...the thing with the hook on the door and me going around and all that…the sweater...all...
View ArticleInterview: Dennis Quaid & Ramin Bahrani…At Any Price…4/8/13
[Quaid:] It’s like a process of osmosis...I was thrown into the place, and I was just trying to soak in as much as I could from the farmers, from the feel of the place where we were at...
View ArticleInterview: John Cho, Alice Eve & Simon Pegg…Star Trek Into Darkness…5/9/13
[Pegg:] Kirk is emotionally compromised from the start of this film. You know, he‘s driven by something other than sense. He‘s driven by vengeance. And Scotty really is absolutely right to stand up to...
View ArticleInterview: Will Arnett…Sit Down Shut Up, Arrested Development…02/27/09
I did play those kind of parts, quite frankly...maybe a little bit too much...So I made a decision that I did want to kind of harness whatever a-hole capabilities that I have and use them for good.
View ArticleInterview: Henry Winkler & Josh Weinstein…Sit Down Shut Up, Arrested...
Winkler: I don’t know what happened to me, but when I first read this script, and I went in, I did it with a great calm. I just did him, and I spoke very quietly...he’s always on the verge of possibly...
View ArticleInterview: Mitch Hurwitz…Sit Down Shut Up, Arrested Development…02/27/09
Everybody goes off and has careers and that kind of thing, so it‘s been a little challenging to schedule everybody together. And, um, but we‘ve all…everyone who‘s agreed to make this movie has agreed...
View ArticleInterview: Judy Blume & Lawrence Blume…Tiger Eyes…7/20/12
[Judy Blume:] My father did die suddenly when I was twenty-one...I really don‘t think I was thinking of that when I wrote the book, but now that I see the movie, I know that it is so much of...
View ArticleInterview: Alexis Denisof & Amy Acker…Much Ado About Nothing…4/28/2013
[Denisof:] He wanted to bring a feel of the mid-century Golden Age of moviemaking, the noir, romantic noir, comedy: some hybrid of that. So kinda keep pushing the tempo of it a little bit so it stays...
View ArticleInterview: Israel Broussard & Katie Chang…The Bling Ring…6/7/2013
[Broussard:] I think he was just lost. And he got lost a little more, but at least he was being loved and at least he learned something from that...not only about the consequences but about who he was....
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