All Interviews

Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Sorkin“That takes quite an ego”

Abel Ferrara

Abel Ferrara“Does pain really teach you at all?”

Agustina San Martin

Agustina San Martin“I refuse to be one thing”

Alejandro Iñárritu

Alejandro Iñárritu“There is no way you can stop”

Alexander Payne

Alexander Payne“I was far from the most talented”

Ang Lee

Ang Lee“No one can see what’s coming”

Anton Corbijn

Anton Corbijn“My life is crazy, but it’s real love”

Armando Iannucci

Armando Iannucci“There are no rules anymore”

Bong Joon-ho

Bong Joon-ho“The fear is hard to get rid of”

Brian De Palma

Brian De Palma“You have to battle”

Chaitanya Tamhane

Chaitanya Tamhane“I want to find my own language”

Charlie Kaufman

Charlie Kaufman“I don’t believe in rules”

Chloë Sevigny

Chloë Sevigny“I am leaning towards mysticism”

Chloé Zhao

Chloé Zhao“I call it the age of innocence”

Chris Sanders

Chris Sanders“Every second counts”

Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan“I did not intend any message”

Claude Chabrol

Claude Chabrol“There’s nothing original in my movies”

Danny DeVito

Danny DeVito“You’ve gotta go in all the way”

Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky“I wish I could be more manipulative”

David Lynch

David Lynch“Stories should have the suffering”

Davis Guggenheim

Davis Guggenheim“I want to keep breaking the rules”

Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper“I thought I had power”

Don Cheadle

Don Cheadle“Movies are not attempting to educate you”

Doug Liman

Doug Liman“I’m not interested in easy”

Edgar Wright

Edgar Wright“It becomes a bit like alchemy”

Edward Berger

Edward Berger“All it takes is a good script”

Ellen Kuras

Ellen Kuras“I’ve always worked in my mind’s eye”

Ferdinando Cito Filomarino

Ferdinando Cito Filomarino“It was a different type of mission”

Flying Lotus

Flying Lotus“Music wasn’t a reality for me”

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola“It’s a devastating decision”

François Ozon

François Ozon“I don't suffer”

Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro“I am not meta, I am really earnest”

Gus Van Sant

Gus Van Sant“You always want it to be different”

James Cameron

James Cameron“All my movies are love stories”

Jim Jarmusch

Jim Jarmusch“What are they afraid of?”

Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster“We are in an era of identity searching”

Joel Edgerton

Joel Edgerton“I create my freedom around that”

John Waters

John Waters“Stop blaming your parents”

Julian Schnabel

Julian Schnabel“I never thought of art as a career”

Julie Delpy

Julie Delpy“People should care about who they are”

Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh“It’s not such a great leap”

Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner“The script will sustain us”

Kevin MacDonald

Kevin MacDonald“You know it when you feel it”

Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith“That’s the joy of it”

Kyle Bell

Kyle Bell“I can do this”

Larry Clark

Larry Clark“Why can’t you show everything?”

Liesl Tommy

Liesl Tommy“Let your instincts take over”

Luca Guadagnino

Luca Guadagnino“I try to surrender to my evidences”

M. Night Shyamalan

M. Night Shyamalan“I’m who you want in there”

Małgorzata Szumowska

Małgorzata Szumowska“It’s so unpredictable”

Mark Duplass

Mark Duplass“It’s a dog fight”

Matt Dillon

Matt Dillon“There’s always something to look for”

Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry“I believe in Utopia”

Miranda July

Miranda July“I am making more room in the world”

Noah Baumbach

Noah Baumbach“You can't get away from yourself”

Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone“I’m braced for disappointment”

Olivia Wilde

Olivia Wilde“It lights you up”

Paul Feig

Paul Feig“Comedy is never going to go away”

Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader“That day is gone”

Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar“Keep it on the rails”

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino“It’s a corrupted cinema”

Rafael Manuel

Rafael Manuel“I’m taking it as a chance for growth”

Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes“One’s vanity is always there”

Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais“The truth is more devastating than a lie”

Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott“You can't have a comfortable ride”

Rob Marshall

Rob Marshall“There’s nothing like it”

Rob Reiner

Rob Reiner“I believe in it”

Robin Wright

Robin Wright“We’re always compromising”

RZA

RZA“I knew where to go”

Sam Mendes

Sam Mendes“No one is owed anything”

Sam Raimi

Sam Raimi“It’s done in earnestness”

Sarah Polley

Sarah Polley“It felt so revolutionary”

Sean Penn

Sean Penn“I wouldn’t trade it for anything”

Seth Gordon

Seth Gordon“Film is a living organism”

Seth MacFarlane

Seth MacFarlane“There’s room for all”

Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola“Film is our family business”

Spike Lee

Spike Lee“I’m not a quitter”

Stephen Frears

Stephen Frears“Failure is where you learn”

Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen“It’s about what’s right, not what fits”

Steven Soderbergh

Steven Soderbergh“I can’t reverse a trend”

Susanne Bier

Susanne Bier“I never looked back”

Taika Waititi

Taika Waititi“No idea is final”

Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam“Things happen”

Thea Sharrock

Thea Sharrock“Deal with it and reflect on it afterwards”

Tim Roth

Tim Roth“It was our turn now”

Todd Haynes

Todd Haynes“You have to be alone to be inspired”

Tom Ford

Tom Ford“I am really a loner after all”

Wally Pfister

Wally Pfister“I had to shift to storytelling”

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog“Trust in my wild fantasies”

Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson“We are usually doing it one way”

Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders“Everything I loved I had to defend”

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