Let’s start from the beginning. Where did this come from?
Boots Riley: I knew I wanted to write something that happened in the world of telemarketing.
Features: Q&A
June 28, 2018
Won't You Be My Neighbor? – Q&A with Morgan Neville
by The National Board of Review
The letter’s from a five year old boy and it says, “Dear Mr. Rogers, are you for real? Are you for real or not?”
June 22, 2018
Hereditary – Q&A with Toni Collette and Ari Aster
by The National Board of Review
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
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.