When did you first conceive of this film?
Rian Johnson: The idea for this film came very very early, even when we were still making the first one.
Features: Q&A
March 3, 2023
All Quiet on the Western Front – Q&A with Edward Berger
by The National Board of Review
Your DP said that his collaboration with you is one of the most unique he’s had with a director.
Edward Berger: We’re both obsessed with precision and architecture in the film. It’s not haphazard and we don’t try to find the shot on set. It gives me true pleasure to set up a shot and in that shot, have every department create the illusion that this is reality.
February 23, 2023
Sr. – Q&A with Chris Smith
by The National Board of Review
Is it correct that you had a very small crew, during production? Was that always the plan?
Chris Smith: When we first went out to Robert Downey Jr.’s house in the Hamptons, he said that we couldn’t bring a crew. Which I only found out two days beforehand.
February 17, 2023
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – Q&A with Laura Poitras
by The National Board of Review
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. You really weave so many stories together so beautifully in the film. How did you and Nan weave in and out of each other’s lives? Laura Poitras: Nan and I have intersected, sometimes literally […]
February 9, 2023
Women Talking – Q&A with Sarah Polley, Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, Ben Whishaw, Rooney Mara, and Dede Gardner
by The National Board of Review
Can you describe your approach to adapting the novel, and to making the story so cinematic?
Sarah Polley: I think I always thought of the story as somewhat of an epic.