Film Interviews

Aaron Sorkin: “That takes quite an ego”

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

Adrien Brody: “I don’t have an option”

Agustina San Martin: “I refuse to be one thing”

Al Pacino: “You can’t let your skin get too thick”

Alan Menken: “Always be in love with the process”

Alejandro Iñárritu: “There is no way you can stop”

Alexander Payne: “I was far from the most talented”

Alfie Allen: “It’s a form of torture every night”

Alicia Vikander: “You just work through it”

Amy Schumer: “That’s all I can ask for”

Andreas Deja: “Realism is the tough part”

Andrew Garfield: “It’s a wound and a gift”

Andrew Kevin Walker: “It still gave me nightmares”

Ang Lee: “No one can see what’s coming”

Anthony Hopkins: “I see the lines, but I don’t care”

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

Anton Yelchin: “There are no real answers”

Antonio Banderas: “I live in the mystery”

Ari Wegner: “It’s a really connected experience”

Armando Iannucci: “There are no rules anymore”

Audrey Tautou: “Who is the artist?”

Ben Kingsley: “I love the now, it is all we have”

Benedict Cumberbatch: “Your mind has the power to shape reality”

Bill Conti: “I’m writing it for emotional reaction”

Bill Murray: “It’s more intake than output”

Bill Nighy: “If everybody laughs, job done”

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

Brendan Fraser: “I am not a stranger to that”

Brian De Palma: “You have to battle”

Brian Tyree Henry: “It reminds me that I’m alive”

Brie Larson: “I hope my work makes people feel less alone”

Bruce Dern: “You’ve got to keep accelerating”

Bryan Cranston: “I want to slow it down”

Caleb Landry Jones: “Acting will always be strange to me”

Catherine Deneuve: “You don’t tell the same stories”

Chaitanya Tamhane: “I want to find my own language”

Charlie Hunnam: “I worry that I’ll get devoured”

Charlie Kaufman: “I don’t believe in rules”

Charlotte Rampling: “You have to be brave”

Chiwetel Ejiofor: “You’ve got to swing for the rafters”

Chloë Sevigny: “I am leaning towards mysticism”

Chloé Zhao: “I call it the age of innocence”

Chris Pratt: “I’m not going to freak out”

Chris Sanders: “Every second counts”

Christian Bale: “I like being responsible for myself”

Christine Vachon: “You have to have the stomach for it”

Christoph Waltz: “It has nothing to do with the job”

Christopher Nolan: “I did not intend any message”

Christopher Walken: “That’s it, it’s over”

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

Colin Farrell: “I don’t think parenthood changes you”

Colin Firth: “It sounds awfully spoiled, but I’ll take it”

Colleen Atwood: “You want them to resonate”

Colman Domingo: “That was enough for me”

Craig Roberts: “Nobody knows what’s going on”

Da’Vine Joy Randolph: “I want a continuous development”

Daniel Kaluuya: “Making it is not impossible”

Daniel Radcliffe: “I’ve released a lot of the pressure”

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

Danny Elfman: “I’m wired in this way”

Danny Trejo: “Let’s do it, I’ll play it”

Darren Aronofsky: “I wish I could be more manipulative”

David Cronenberg: “You are revealing many things”

David J. Peterson: “Does it fit the culture?”

David Lynch: “Stories should have the suffering”

David Newman: “You’re bonded to it”

David Oyelowo: “You are not the center”

Davis Guggenheim: “I want to keep breaking the rules”

Deborah L. Scott: “The heart of it is always the same”

Deborah Landis: “Costumes are talismans”

Demi Moore: “I see it only as a gain”

Denise Gough: “It feels like I need to hold back”

Dennis Hopper: “I thought I had power”

Dennis Muren: “There’s a magic to it”

Denzel Washington: “I don't think there is a system”

Diane Kruger: “Who needs to be told what to think?”

Diane Lane: “I try not to draw attention to myself”

Don Cheadle: “Movies are not attempting to educate you”

Doug Liman: “I’m not interested in easy”

Dwayne Johnson: “It comes with the game”

Edgar Wright: “It becomes a bit like alchemy”

Edward Berger: “All it takes is a good script”

Edward Norton: “It’s about balance”

Elijah Wood: “Every film has its own part to play”

Elisabeth Moss: “Truth is stranger than fiction”

Elizabeth Olsen: “I just had to step it up”

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

Emile Hirsch: “That’s why I am the way I am”

Emma Stone: “Anxiety in its essence is fear”

Eric Roth: “Screenwriting is a bastardized form of art”

Ethan Hawke: “I wonder if I’m up to the task”

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

Florian Hoffmeister: “That’s the birthplace of the visual”

Francis Ford Coppola: “It’s a devastating decision”

François Ozon: “I don't suffer”

Frank Langella: “I couldn’t look a girl in the eye”

Freida Pinto: “If you're bothered, change the channel”

Gael García Bernal: “Growing up is such a gift”

Geoffrey Rush: “Why have we become this way?”

George MacKay: “You can’t dream up something you haven’t felt”

Glenn Close: “My passion is exactly the same”

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

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

Guy Pearce: “Where’s my conviction?”

Hans Zimmer: “You are forever in that dream world”

Henry Cavill: “We don’t play a perfect game at all times”

Hilary Swank: “You’ve got to trust your instincts”

Hildur Guðnadóttir: “That’s when things come alive”

Ian McKellen: “The journey goes on”

Idris Elba: “The process is like a jigsaw puzzle”

Isabella Rossellini: “Things will come back”

J.K. Simmons: “Good writing makes me crazy”

Jack Nicholson: “I put on a good show”

James Cameron: “All my movies are love stories”

James Franco: “I do all my homework”

James McAvoy: “I don’t feel entitled”

Jamie Bell: “I get what I want out of it”

Jane Birkin: “There was a sense of being totally free”

Jane Campion: “It has to go beyond”

Jared Leto: “Every film has changed my life”

Jason Schwartzman: “I enter a weird mode”

Javier Bardem: “My slate is clean”

Jeff Bridges: “Life is my guru”

Jeff Goldblum: “I can do this in a hundred ways”

Jennifer Lame: “I loved the puzzle of the process”

Jenny Beavan: “That’s when your mind is free”

Jesse Eisenberg: “I’m not being tricked”

Jim Carrey: “There is no me”

Jim Jarmusch: “What are they afraid of?”

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

Joe Wright: “It’s a matter of feeling”

Joel Edgerton: “I create my freedom around that”

Jóhann Jóhannsson: “Does it speak simply and directly?”

John C. Reilly: “We all owe a debt”

John Hurt: “There’s not much work in it”

John Malkovich: “I am not in any hurry”

John Waters: “Stop blaming your parents”

Jon Landau: “I can’t do anything unless I’m all in”

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: “It hasn’t happened yet”

Jude Law: “It's not you”

Judi Dench: “I have an irrational fear of boredom”

Julianne Moore: “We want to feel something”

Julie Delpy: “People should care about who they are”

Juliette Binoche: “You have to be more intelligent”

Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall: “The stakes have changed”

Keira Knightley: “It’s the joy of growing up”

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

Kenny Gravillis: “It becomes a dance”

Kevin Costner: “The script will sustain us”

Kevin Kline: “It’s a different sort of thrill”

Kevin MacDonald: “You know it when you feel it”

Kevin Smith: “That’s the joy of it”

Kiernan Shipka: “I was living those themes in my own ways”

Kristin Scott Thomas: “You forget how much it hurts”

Kyle Bell: “I can do this”

Laura Dern: “We have to evolve together”

Leslie Odom Jr.: “We have to make room for all of it”

Liam Neeson: “I created my own luck”

Liesl Tommy: “Let your instincts take over”

Lily Gladstone: “You are constantly a role model”

Lily James: “You’re at the mercy of circumstance”

Lol Crawley: “You’re attuned in that moment”

Luca Guadagnino: “I try to surrender to my evidences”

Ludovico Einaudi: “It was like a ritual”

Ludwig Göransson: “I’m building a puzzle”

Lupita Nyong’o: “I have to transform who I am”

Lyn Paolo: “I love creating those worlds”

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

Mads Mikkelsen: “That’s how we defined it”

Mahershala Ali: “The stakes were always high”

Maisie Williams: “I’ve learned to protect myself”

Małgorzata Szumowska: “It’s so unpredictable”

Marianne Elliott: “You’re there to change lives”

Marion Cotillard: “My dream was simple”

Mark Bridges: “I’m there to satisfy the piece”

Mark Duplass: “It’s a dog fight”

Marlee Matlin: “That’s what keeps me going”

Matt Damon: “These types of movies are going away”

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

Matthew Libatique: “That’s not lost on me”

Maya Hawke: “I’m a lifelong learner”

Melissa Leo: “Acting has given me a purpose”

Meryl Streep: “I'm not always happy”

Michael Ballhaus: “Nobody can hurt me”

Michael Caine: “I don’t get the girl, I get the part”

Michael Douglas: “Youth is wasted on the young”

Michael Pitt: “Don’t give yourself an out”

Michael Shannon: “There’s no reward other than knowledge”

Michel Gondry: “I believe in Utopia”

Mihai Mălaimare Jr.: “Each approach is unique”

Mila Kunis: “They build you up just to knock you down”

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

Monica Bellucci: “I like to explore the dark side”

Morgan Freeman: “Strive for pleasure and peace”

Newton Thomas Sigel: “I can close my eyes and see it”

Nick Offerman: “I have a pugilist in me”

Nicolas Cage: “Sometimes it’s good to be hated”

Nicole Kidman: “You choose the path”

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

Noomi Rapace: “Embrace the cracks”

Oliver Stone: “I’m braced for disappointment”

Olivia Colman: “It will always be a mystery”

Olivia Wilde: “It lights you up”

Owen Wilson: “You just go with it”

Paul Feig: “Comedy is never going to go away”

Paul Schrader: “That day is gone”

Paul Tazewell: “I was paving my own path”

Pedro Almodóvar: “Keep it on the rails”

Peter Dinklage: “The fight is all”

Peter Fonda: “I'll shoot first, right through the door.”

Quentin Tarantino: “It’s a corrupted cinema”

Quvenzhané Wallis: “Not perfect, but better”

Rachel Morrison: “Raise your own stakes”

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

Ralph Fiennes: “One’s vanity is always there”

Rami Malek: “It was daunting to live up to that”

Rebecca Hall: “People are still people”

Renée Zellweger: “I try to concentrate on something true”

Richard Dreyfuss: “I have achieved all my dreams”

Richard Gere: “We are all in this together”

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

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

Rob Marshall: “There’s nothing like it”

Rob Reiner: “I believe in it”

Robert Pattinson: “Everyone wants you to be so vanilla”

Robert Richardson: “I try to be a chameleon”

Robin Wright: “We’re always compromising”

Rodrigo Prieto: “It’s all about emphasizing emotions”

Russell Crowe: “I have a moral standard of my own”

Ruth E. Carter: “We have to make it come to life”

RZA: “I knew where to go”

Sam Mendes: “No one is owed anything”

Sam Raimi: “It’s done in earnestness”

Sam Rockwell: “It’s just being there for the first time”

Sandra Hüller: “These doors have opened”

Sandy Powell: “This is where I want to stay”

Saniyya Sidney: “This is what I want to do”

Saoirse Ronan: “I’m more inquisitive now than ever”

Sarah Paulson: “It’s the way you come up”

Sarah Polley: “It felt so revolutionary”

Sarah Silverman: “Usually I’m the idiot”

Sean Baker: “Mix it up and break the rules”

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

Seth Gordon: “Film is a living organism”

Seth MacFarlane: “There’s room for all”

Sheila Atim: “This is who we are”

Sienna Miller: “It’s always a dilemma”

Sofia Coppola: “Film is our family business”

Spike Lee: “I’m not a quitter”

Stacy Martin: “The film saves me”

Stellan Skarsgård: “Yes Lars, I’ll be there”

Stephen Frears: “Failure is where you learn”

Stephen Fry: “It releases you from loneliness”

Steve Buscemi: “I don’t really think about emotions”

Steve Carell: “It’s different every time”

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

Steven Soderbergh: “I can’t reverse a trend”

Susan Sarandon: “Let’s hope it changes”

Susanne Bier: “I never looked back”

Tahar Rahim: “Why recreate when you can create?”

Taika Waititi: “No idea is final”

Terry Gilliam: “Things happen”

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

Tilda Swinton: “We need cinema now more than ever”

Tim Roth: “It was our turn now”

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

Tracee Ellis Ross: “Why not do it in a big way?”

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross: “That's the magic of it”

Trevor Matthews and Nick Gordon: “Why is this story important?”

Tye Sheridan: “You have to rise to the moment”

Vanessa Kirby: “Empathy is the job for an actor”

Vicky Krieps: “Go with your instinct”

Viggo Mortensen: “Experience should free you”

Vincent Cassel: “Keep the mystery alive”

Wally Pfister: “I had to shift to storytelling”

Walter Salles: “Create in the moment”

Werner Herzog: “Trust in my wild fantasies”

Wes Anderson: “We are usually doing it one way”

Whitney White: “Just keep expanding”

Will Ferrell: “I am kind of boring to me”

Willem Dafoe: “You are not driving it”

Wim Wenders: “Everything I loved I had to defend”

Woody Harrelson: “I have hypnotized myself”
