Interview: Armando Iannucci…The Death of Stalin…3/12/2018
The comedy‘s suddenly different. The jokes are more about crazy behavior, paranoia, and hysteria.
View ArticleInterview: Michael Mayer…The Seagull…April 29, 2018
For most of my life, I really identified with Constantin...but through the years, I‘ve probably become more of a Trigorin.
View ArticleInterview: Jason Isaacs…The Death of Stalin, Star Trek: Discovery, Harry...
You can‘t sprinkle perfume on a turd...You can‘t make a bad script into a good story.
View ArticleInterview: Paul Schrader…First Reformed, Auto Focus…4/6/2018
‘Why are we here? Where are we going? What will become of us?’ And for twenty or thirty thousand years, that’s been a hypothetical question…well, it’s no longer…
View ArticleInterview: Bo Burnham…Eighth Grade…6/7/2018
I felt...pop culture is insane, and I always felt so gross for participating in it, and so hypocritical for participating in it. So what I’ll be is an angry hypocrite. Because that’s a coherent, at...
View ArticleInterview: Kathryn Hahn & Tamara Jenkins…Private Life…10/5/2018
[Hahn:] Like childbirth, a movie is like: you kind of forget the pain and would do it again in a second.
View ArticleInterview: Frederick Wiseman…Monrovia, Indiana; Titicut Follies…9/28/2018
I‘m trying to make a group of movies that represent as many different aspects of contemporary life as I can.
View ArticleInterview: Paul Dano…Wildlife, Love & Mercy…10/5/2018
[I] immediately felt a sort of uncanny personal relationship to it: the characters, the sense of love in this really great struggle...a lot of pain. [Richard Ford] somehow wrote about this very...
View ArticleInterview: Peter Hedges…Ben is Back, The Odd Life of Timothy Green…10/12/2018
Who wants to be directed by their father? Particularly at an age when…the fun part of being 21 is that you fire your parents. Y‘know, you‘re free of them.
View ArticleInterview: Pawel Pawlikowski…Cold War, Ida…10/5/2018
The more you think about [your parents], the more contradictory they get...A lot of people find themselves in this film. You‘d expect it‘s such an unusual, eccentric story, but...
View ArticleInterview: Alfonso Cuarón…Roma…1/4/2019
I was very lucky to be raised by two strong and very generous women...[Cleo] embodies, in one hand, those scars that I share with my family, but in the other hand, those scars that I share with a whole...
View ArticleInterview: Ira Sachs…Frankie…10/7/2019
I‘m interested in a democratic narrative...Anyone who is on the screen is interesting. Right? Everyone has their own story.
View ArticleInterview: Scott Z. Burns & Daniel Jones…The Report…10/11/2019
[Burns:] ‘The only thing more powerful than telling someone a story they don‘t know is telling someone a story that they thought they knew‘...Whenever I could I used the language and the facts that are...
View ArticleInterview: Ruth E. Carter…Dolemite Is My Name, Do the Right Thing…11/20/2019
I don‘t want to be on my own island...I‘m here to collaborate, not to just be the Grand Poobah of costume design.
View ArticleInterview: Will Forte…Extra Ordinary, MacGruber…2/17/2020
I feel like most of the discussion about the character on this one was about hair. (Laughs.) Hair and facial hair....And they told me to take a look at Chris de Burgh videos.
View ArticleInterview: Jack Dylan Grazer & Fionn Whitehead…Don‘t Tell a Soul…12/14/2020
[Grazer:] I feel like Fionn, not only on set but just in life, showed me the ropes as like a brother would do.
View ArticleInterview: Harvey Guillén…Werewolves Within and What We Do in the...
I wanted with Joachim to have quirks and certain characteristics that I know from friends and people I‘ve worked with...I love him being over the top and flamboyant, but still grounded, ‘cause we all...
View ArticleInterview: Steve Martin & Martin Short…Only Murders in the...
[Martin:] I‘ve read that monkeypox is sexually transmitted, so neither Marty nor I could possibly catch it.“ [Short:] “Unless you can catch it through batteries.“
View ArticleInterview: Marcia Gay Harden…Confess, Fletch; Miller‘s Crossing…9/16/2022
It was so much fun. She was slightly, wonderfully over the top, narcissistic, and enjoys life.
View ArticleInterview: Goran Stolevski−Of An Age, You Won‘t Be Alone…2/6/2023
I think one thing actually that sometimes even gay people seem to forget about: there is something extremely sexy about being the only two people in the room who have a secret that no one else knows...
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