Hereditary – Q&A with Toni Collette and Ari Aster

This is something of a personal story, correct?
Ari Aster: The beautiful thing about genre filmmaking and the horror genre in general is that you can take a personal story or feeling that you need to work through and push it through this filter

First Reformed – Q&A with Ethan Hawke and Paul Schrader

What was the genesis of this film?
Paul Schrader: The process began about three years ago when I was giving an award for Pawel Pawlikowski, for his film Ida at the New York Society of Film Critics.

The Rider – Q&A with ChloĆ© Zhao and Brady Jandreau

Can you take us through the process of making this film? There was a long period of time when you were building toward something like this.
ChloĆ© Zhao: During my third year at NYU, I was thinking about what feature film to make. That’s when I first went out to Pine Ridge.