Film Interviews

RZA: “I knew where to go”

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

Mahershala Ali: “The stakes were always high”

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

Pedro Almodóvar: “Keep it on the rails”

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

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

Sheila Atim: “This is who we are”

Colleen Atwood: “You want them to resonate”

Christian Bale: “I like being responsible for myself”

Michael Ballhaus: “Nobody can hurt me”

Antonio Banderas: “I live in the mystery”

Javier Bardem: “My slate is clean”

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

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

Kyle Bell: “I can do this”

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

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

Susanne Bier: “I never looked back”

Juliette Binoche: “You have to be more intelligent”

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

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

Jeff Bridges: “Life is my guru”

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

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

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

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

James Cameron: “All my movies are love stories”

Jane Campion: “It has to go beyond”

Steve Carell: “It’s different every time”

Jim Carrey: “There is no me”

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

Vincent Cassel: “Keep the mystery alive”

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

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

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

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

Glenn Close: “My passion is exactly the same”

Olivia Colman: “It will always be a mystery”

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

Sofia Coppola: “Film is our family business”

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

Marion Cotillard: “My dream was simple”

Bryan Cranston: “I want to slow it down”

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

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

Willem Dafoe: “You are not driving it”

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

Brian De Palma: “You have to battle”

Andreas Deja: “Realism is the tough part”

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

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

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

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

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

Laura Dern: “We have to evolve together”

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

Leonardo DiCaprio: “I am a lot calmer now”

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

Peter Dinklage: “The fight is all”

Michael Douglas: “Youth is wasted on the young”

Richard Dreyfuss: “I have achieved all my dreams”

Mark Duplass: “It’s a dog fight”

Joel Edgerton: “I create my freedom around that”

Ludovico Einaudi: “It was like a ritual”

Jesse Eisenberg: “I’m not being tricked”

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

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

Danny Elfman: “I’m wired in this way”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

James Franco: “I do all my homework”

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

Morgan Freeman: “Strive for pleasure and peace”

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

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

Richard Gere: “We are all in this together”

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

Terry Gilliam: “Things happen”

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

Michel Gondry: “I believe in Utopia”

Ludwig Göransson: “I’m building a puzzle”

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

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

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

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

Rebecca Hall: “People are still people”

Woody Harrelson: “I have hypnotized myself”

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

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

Werner Herzog: “Trust in my wild fantasies”

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

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

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

Dennis Hopper: “I thought I had power”

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

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

Armando Iannucci: “There are no rules anymore”

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

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

Jim Jarmusch: “What are they afraid of?”

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

Dwayne Johnson: “It comes with the game”

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

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

Daniel Kaluuya: “Making it is not impossible”

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

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

Nicole Kidman: “You choose the path”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deborah Landis: “Costumes are talismans”

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

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

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

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

Jude Law: “It's not you”

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

Spike Lee: “I’m not a quitter”

Melissa Leo: “Acting has given me a purpose”

Jared Leto: “Every film has changed my life”

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

David Lynch: “Stories should have the suffering”

Seth MacFarlane: “There’s room for all”

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

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

John Malkovich: “I am not in any hurry”

Rob Marshall: “There’s nothing like it”

Stacy Martin: “The film saves me”

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

James McAvoy: “I don’t feel entitled”

Ian McKellen: “The journey goes on”

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

Sam Mendes: “No one is owed anything”

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

Sienna Miller: “It’s always a dilemma”

Julianne Moore: “We want to feel something”

Viggo Mortensen: “Experience should free you”

Elisabeth Moss: “Truth is stranger than fiction”

Dennis Muren: “There’s a magic to it”

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

Liam Neeson: “I created my own luck”

David Newman: “You’re bonded to it”

Jack Nicholson: “I put on a good show”

Bill Nighy: “If everybody laughs, job done”

Christopher Nolan: “I did not intend any message”

Edward Norton: “It’s about balance”

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

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

Nick Offerman: “I have a pugilist in me”

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

David Oyelowo: “You are not the center”

François Ozon: “I don't suffer”

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

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

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

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

Guy Pearce: “Where’s my conviction?”

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

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

Wally Pfister: “I had to shift to storytelling”

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

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

Sarah Polley: “It felt so revolutionary”

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

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

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

Zachary Quinto: “I have a different journey”

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

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

Sam Raimi: “It’s done in earnestness”

Charlotte Rampling: “You have to be brave”

John C. Reilly: “We all owe a debt”

Rob Reiner: “I believe in it”

Robert Richardson: “I try to be a chameleon”

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

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

Isabella Rossellini: “Things will come back”

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

Tim Roth: “It was our turn now”

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

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

Susan Sarandon: “Let’s hope it changes”

Paul Schrader: “That day is gone”

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

Jason Schwartzman: “I enter a weird mode”

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

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

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

Chloë Sevigny: “I am leaning towards mysticism”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sarah Silverman: “Usually I’m the idiot”

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

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

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

Aaron Sorkin: “That takes quite an ego”

Oliver Stone: “I’m braced for disappointment”

Emma Stone: “Anxiety in its essence is fear”

Meryl Streep: “I'm not always happy”

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

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

Quentin Tarantino: “It’s a corrupted cinema”

Audrey Tautou: “Who is the artist?”

Liesl Tommy: “Let your instincts take over”

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

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

Alicia Vikander: “You just work through it”

Taika Waititi: “No idea is final”

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

Andrew Kevin Walker: “It still gave me nightmares”

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

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

John Waters: “Stop blaming your parents”

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

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

Whitney White: “Just keep expanding”

Olivia Wilde: “It lights you up”

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

Owen Wilson: “You just go with it”

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

Robin Wright: “We’re always compromising”

Edgar Wright: “It becomes a bit like alchemy”

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

Anton Yelchin: “There are no real answers”

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

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