Film Interviews

Christopher Nolan: “I did not intend any message”

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

Dennis Muren: “There’s a magic to it”

Rob Marshall: “There’s nothing like it”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sarah Polley: “It felt so revolutionary”

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

John Malkovich: “I am not in any hurry”

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

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

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

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

Deborah Landis: “Costumes are talismans”

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

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

Kyle Bell: “I can do this”

Ludovico Einaudi: “It was like a ritual”

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

David Newman: “You’re bonded to it”

Rob Reiner: “I believe in it”

Whitney White: “Just keep expanding”

Olivia Wilde: “It lights you up”

Danny Elfman: “I’m wired in this way”

Glenn Close: “My passion is exactly the same”

Sam Raimi: “It’s done in earnestness”

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

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

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

Dwayne Johnson: “It comes with the game”

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

Jane Campion: “It has to go beyond”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Edgar Wright: “It becomes a bit like alchemy”

Liam Neeson: “I created my own luck”

Liesl Tommy: “Let your instincts take over”

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

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

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

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

Andreas Deja: “Realism is the tough part”

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

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

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

Sheila Atim: “This is who we are”

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

Daniel Kaluuya: “Making it is not impossible”

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

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

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

Jared Leto: “Every film has changed my life”

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

Melissa Leo: “Acting has given me a purpose”

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

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

Tim Roth: “It was our turn now”

Richard Dreyfuss: “I have achieved all my dreams”

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

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

Susanne Bier: “I never looked back”

Seth MacFarlane: “There’s room for all”

RZA: “I knew where to go”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Armando Iannucci: “There are no rules anymore”

Bill Nighy: “If everybody laughs, job done”

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

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

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

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

Laura Dern: “We have to evolve together”

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

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

Taika Waititi: “No idea is final”

Sam Mendes: “No one is owed anything”

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

Wally Pfister: “I had to shift to storytelling”

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

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

Ludwig Göransson: “I’m building a puzzle”

Pedro Almodóvar: “Keep it on the rails”

Colleen Atwood: “You want them to resonate”

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

Chloë Sevigny: “I am leaning towards mysticism”

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

John C. Reilly: “We all owe a debt”

Nicole Kidman: “You choose the path”

Spike Lee: “I’m not a quitter”

Mahershala Ali: “The stakes were always high”

Olivia Colman: “It will always be a mystery”

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

Joel Edgerton: “I create my freedom around that”

Mark Duplass: “It’s a dog fight”

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

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

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

Javier Bardem: “My slate is clean”

Stacy Martin: “The film saves me”

Woody Harrelson: “I have hypnotized myself”

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

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

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

Bryan Cranston: “I want to slow it down”

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

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

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

Aaron Sorkin: “That takes quite an ego”

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

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

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

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

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

Jim Carrey: “There is no me”

Andrew Kevin Walker: “It still gave me nightmares”

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

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

Rebecca Hall: “People are still people”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Gere: “We are all in this together”

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

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

James McAvoy: “I don’t feel entitled”

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

Sienna Miller: “It’s always a dilemma”

Guy Pearce: “Where’s my conviction?”

Emma Stone: “Anxiety in its essence is fear”

James Cameron: “All my movies are love stories”

Nick Offerman: “I have a pugilist in me”

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

Steve Carell: “It’s different every time”

Jim Jarmusch: “What are they afraid of?”

Paul Schrader: “That day is gone”

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

Alicia Vikander: “You just work through it”

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

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

Owen Wilson: “You just go with it”

Julianne Moore: “We want to feel something”

Michael Ballhaus: “Nobody can hurt me”

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

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

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

Robert Richardson: “I try to be a chameleon”

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

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

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

Oliver Stone: “I’m braced for disappointment”

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

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

Antonio Banderas: “I live in the mystery”

Ian McKellen: “The journey goes on”

Juliette Binoche: “You have to be more intelligent”

Elisabeth Moss: “Truth is stranger than fiction”

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

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

Peter Dinklage: “The fight is all”

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

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

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

John Waters: “Stop blaming your parents”

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

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

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

Jeff Bridges: “Life is my guru”

Anton Yelchin: “There are no real answers”

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

Marion Cotillard: “My dream was simple”

David Oyelowo: “You are not the center”

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

Susan Sarandon: “Let’s hope it changes”

Isabella Rossellini: “Things will come back”

David Lynch: “Stories should have the suffering”

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

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

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

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

François Ozon: “I don't suffer”

Jesse Eisenberg: “I’m not being tricked”

Viggo Mortensen: “Experience should free you”

Zachary Quinto: “I have a different journey”

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

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

Dennis Hopper: “I thought I had power”

Quentin Tarantino: “It’s a corrupted cinema”

Christian Bale: “I like being responsible for myself”

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

Willem Dafoe: “You are not driving it”

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

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

Audrey Tautou: “Who is the artist?”

Brian De Palma: “You have to battle”

Werner Herzog: “Trust in my wild fantasies”

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

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

Morgan Freeman: “Strive for pleasure and peace”

Jude Law: “It's not you”

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

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

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

Sarah Silverman: “Usually I’m the idiot”

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

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

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

Edward Norton: “It’s about balance”

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

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

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

Charlotte Rampling: “You have to be brave”

Jason Schwartzman: “I enter a weird mode”

Terry Gilliam: “Things happen”

Vincent Cassel: “Keep the mystery alive”

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

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

Michael Douglas: “Youth is wasted on the young”

Robin Wright: “We’re always compromising”

James Franco: “I do all my homework”

Leonardo DiCaprio: “I am a lot calmer now”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michel Gondry: “I believe in Utopia”

Meryl Streep: “I'm not always happy”

Jack Nicholson: “I put on a good show”

Sofia Coppola: “Film is our family business”
