What are the origins of the script?
Gus Van Sant: I live in Portland, Oregon. I had moved there, I think, in 1982. I had made a couple of films, and John Callahan was a visible, local character.
Features: Q&A
July 11, 2018
Sorry to Bother You – Q&A with Boots Riley, Lakeith Stanfield, and Jermaine Fowler
by The National Board of Review
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.
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.