What drew you to this material and inspired you to direct the film?
Sian Heder: I came to this because it was originally a studio film, and Lionsgate was looking to do a remake of La famille Bélier, a French film that came out in 2014.
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August 2015
Q&A with Screenwriter Donald Margulies and Jason Segel
What was your experience like coming to this project?
Jason Segel: I had made a decision that I wanted to do something entirely different than what I had been doing.
December 2017
Q&A with Saoirse Ronan and Greta Gerwig
One of the most priceless moments in the film is when Lady Bird escapes from the car. What was it like putting that scene together?
Greta Gerwig: That scene was such a monster on the page because there are so many emotions.
November 2019
Q&A with Laura Dern, Adam Driver, and Noah Baumbach
Can you talk about conceiving this story, and you’re writing process?
Noah Baumbach: It was inherent in the title that we are asking, “Does anyone really know what the story of a marriage is, and if that story has an end of sorts, does it mean it wasn’t a marriage?”
June 2020
Q&A With Fisher Stevens and Malcolm Venville
Fisher, I understand that this film had a pretty unique origin story?
Fisher Stevens: Leo [DiCaprio] called me and told me he was in Brooklyn, and that I should come meet him for lunch at the racetrack in Brooklyn. I told him there was no race track in Brooklyn!
September 2018
Q&A with Desiree Akhavan, Chloë Grace Moretz, John Gallagher Jr., and Forrest Goodluck
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of The Miseducation of Cameron Post. How did this project start? Desiree Akhavan: I was sent the book and I loved it. I really loved it. I gave it to my girlfriend at the time, who read it and loved it. And, […]
July 2020
Q&A with Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk
How did you decide what to include and how to show how the puzzle pieces fit together?
That was the main question in the beginning, because it is so overwhelming. It’s likely there are at least 500 survivors of Nassar alone.
May 2023
Q&A with Andrea Pallaoro, Trace Lysette, and Patricia Clarkson
I’d love to hear how you developed the script.
Andrea Pallaoro: Well, it’s a film that I had envisioned as part of a much larger exploration on the traumas and the dynamics of what it means to feel abandoned and the consequences of that.
June 2024
Q&A with Kai Höss, Maya Lasker-Wallfisch, Wendy Robbins, and Daniela Völker
Maya, I understand that the seed of the idea for this film originated with you?
Maya Lasker-Wallfisch: Yes: I wrote a book, which was apparently interesting! And one of the things I wrote about in the book were two themes that really interested Daniela. And so Daniela and I were connected through a mutual person that we both knew.
June 2025
Q&A with Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer
Congratulations on this incredible film. I want to start with your producer credit. What does that role mean to you?
Celine Song: Being a producer can mean a lot of things. Sometimes it’s financial, but for me, it meant being in the creative trenches—casting, budgeting, locations, all of it.
July 2014
A Mighty Nice Man – Directed by Jonathan Dee
Adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s haunting story of same name, ‘A Mighty Nice Man’ is a tale of the destruction of a young girl’s innocence, as well as urban America’s predation upon rural America’s naïveté.
2008 Awards Gala
A select group of knowledgeable film enthusiasts and professionals, academics, young filmmakers and students, the National Board of Review viewed over 250 films in 2009 including studio, independent, foreign-language, animated and documentary selections. These screenings were frequently followed by in-depth discussions with filmmakers, directors, actors, producers, and screenwriters. Voting ballots were tabulated by the accounting […]