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
Features: Q&A
June 8, 2018
A Kid Like Jake – Q&A with Claire Danes, Octavia Spencer, Daniel Pearle, and Silas Howard
by The National Board of Review
How did you end up bringing it to the screen?
Daniel Pearle: Jim Parsons read the play and he had just started his company, That’s Wonderful.
May 31, 2018
First Reformed – Q&A with Ethan Hawke and Paul Schrader
by The National Board of Review
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.
May 18, 2018
Tully – Q&A with Jason Reitman, Charlize Theron, Ron Livingston, and Mackenzie Davis
by The National Board of Review
How did you go about conceiving two characters who would ultimately converge?
Jason Reitman: I always thought of the movie as being like those lenticular posters, where if you look at the poster and you kind of move your head two inches, the image changes.
May 4, 2018
The Rider – Q&A with Chloé Zhao and Brady Jandreau
by The National Board of Review
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.
Chloé 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.