Interview: Paul Katami & Jeff Zarrillo…The Case Against 8…6/19/2014
[Katami:] You know, watching the film did one thing for us. It made sense of what happened, because when you‘re living it, it‘s very odd to have to go to court and defend your life, and have to testify...
View ArticleInterview: Paul Haggis…First Person, Casino Royale…6/11/2014
Never, ever date a writer. It’s always a mistake. Just do not trust us.
View ArticleInterview: Rob Reiner…And So It Goes, The Case Against 8…6/19 & 6/20/2014
I enjoy the creative process. I love the writing part of it, the editing…one of my favorites. But I also like the production process. It’s just fun to do. That’s what I’ve discovered, you know, as I’ve...
View ArticleInterview: Richard Linklater…Boyhood…7/17/2014
At the end of the shoot, I would talk to the actors, like ‘Okay, next year, here‘s what‘s coming.‘ And then I had the year to think about it, and so did they.
View ArticleInterview: Chris Mulkey…Last Weekend, Twin Peaks…5/2/2014
Malcolm is a totally different kind of role than I‘ve ever played. He‘s a listener. And that‘s a really powerful thing to be able to do...Hank Jennings was a duplicitous guy...
View ArticleInterview: Ira Sachs…Love Is Strange…8/11/2014
It’s a pretty classic kind of set-up for the love story genre because it’s two people who are in love who have to face an obstacle together. And what we reveal in the story is the depth of their love,...
View ArticleInterview: Raphael Bob-Waksberg & Lisa Hanawalt…BoJack Horseman…8/14/2014
Staying with some friends in this big house in the Hollywood hills...I just remember looking out over the deck of this house and seeing the city below and feeling like ‘Oh, I’m on top of the world. And...
View ArticleInterview: Simon Jones…The Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy, Blithe...
Along comes the maid at the end, in the sleepwalking scene. And to my amazement, she’s wearing Arthur Dent’s dressing gown. Not any more, I hasten to say, because it was too big for her.
View ArticleInterview: John Boorman…Queen and Country, Hope and Glory, Point Blank,...
From its very origins, particularly when it was black-and-white filmed, film was so closely connected to dreaming. And it‘s probably why people connected to it so readily...
View ArticleInterview: Michiel Huisman…The Age of Adaline, Game of Thrones…4/13/2015
There‘s parts of me that can be very confident...I guess in real life I don‘t really dare to do that, yeah, because I don‘t think it‘s smart to do, and I‘m not confident enough. But to do it in a role,...
View ArticleInterview: Jason Schwartzman & Bob Byington…7 Chinese Brothers…5/2/2015
[Schwartman:] This kind of guy is in a fog type of alcoholism...you can have a period in your life...where you look back and you go ‘Gosh. I was in a stasis then. I didn‘t do anything.‘ There‘s no...
View ArticleInterview: Gaspard Ulliel…Saint Laurent, Hannibal Rising…4/26/2015
It‘s a prison movie when you think about it....you know, his being watched, infantilized. And yeah we‘re talking about this specific period of his life and his career where it‘s a dialectic between...
View ArticleInterview: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon…Me and Earl and the Dying Girl…6/5/2015
The script already has such a beautiful rhythm...quite playful and fun...As he starts to come of age, the movie starts to be still and quiet, and so that‘s the kind of big picture that we set out to...
View ArticleInterview: Thomas Mann, Olivia Cooke, & RJ Cyler…Me and Earl and the...
[Mann:] It‘s about the importance of opening up, or letting people in, and making real connections. Even if you‘re facing rejection, it‘s ultimately more fulfilling, and you at least can learn...
View ArticleInterview: Tab Hunter--Damn Yankees!, Tab Hunter Confidential--6/20/2015
It‘s not an easy business...
View ArticleInterview: Parker Posey…Irrational Man…July 10, 2015
When I got to set, [Woody Allen] kind of showed me what the temperature of the movie was. I didn‘t know if I was in a comedy. I didn‘t know the tone. I thought a lot about jazz when I was working on this.
View ArticleInterview: Theodore Bikel…My Fair Lady, Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of...
I‘m a communicator. I reach an audience by whichever means are possible, and my voice is one of them. The other is the ability to clearly enunciate what it is that I want to say...And to treat...
View ArticleInterview: Kyle Patrick Alvarez & Dr. Philip Zimbardo…The Stanford Prison...
[Alvarez:] I wanted it to be a collaborative environment. I didn‘t want to pit the actors against themselves. The characters are pitted against each other. So the actors didn‘t have to be.
View ArticleInterview: Jason Segel & James Ponsoldt…The End of the Tour…5/2/2015
[Segel:] I really did relate to this feeling of extreme caution that, uh, even something I say off-handedly could now be printed out-of-context, anywhere, for the rest of my life.
View ArticleInterview: Sir Ben Kingsley…Learning to Drive, Gandhi, Sexy Beast…8/25/2015...
I was taught to deeply respect the written word...the role is on the page, the character is in me, and I suppose I bring my intuition and my wisdom and my love of language to that page, and that‘s how...
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