The opening shot of the ocean felt very lyrical. What made you decide to open your film with this particular shot?
Mike Mills: In the script, the first shot is of a car burning and of course that seems like such a good way to begin a movie.
Features: Q&A
October 3, 2016
Hell or Highwater – Q&A with Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham, Ben Foster, Marin Ireland, and Margaret Bowman
by The National Board of Review
Can you talk about the work you did to develop your roles and form your bond on screen?
Jeff Bridges: Actors approach their work in different ways. You get some that say, “please, just call me by my character’s name… I like you, you’re a nice person, but let’s not hang out too much.”
September 27, 2016
Audrie & Daisy – Q&A with Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, Tori Amos and Daisy Coleman
by The National Board of Review
How did you decide to make these stories into a feature film?
Bonni Cohen: John and I are a married couple – we’ve been making films together for almost twenty years now. And we’ve done a lot of hard films.
August 12, 2016
Florence Foster Jenkins – Q&A with Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant
by The National Board of Review
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of Florence Foster Jenkins. The opening scene is really beautiful, and frames the story so well. Can you discuss how that was conceived? Meryl Streep: Well, it’s interesting that you mention that scene, because the script that we both received […]
July 29, 2016
Star Trek Beyond – Q&A with Simon Pegg and Karl Urban
by The National Board of Review
For a summer blockbuster, this film has some really nice, quiet character moments.
I don’t think you can watch a film that is full of explosions and care about it if you don’t have some care about the people that it is happening to.