Why did such a good script take so long to come to the screen?
Glenn Close: Have you heard of something called the “#Metoo” movement?
Features: Q&A
August 9, 2018
Mission: Impossible - Fallout – Q&A with Christopher McQuarrie
by The National Board of Review
It’s not your first time directing a Mission: Impossible film, and you’re the first director to come back. I hear you were kind of hesitant about that. Why?
Christopher McQuarrie: I had worked on Ghost Protocol. I came in midway through and was working on that movie. I saw Brad Bird going through what could only be described as a meat grinder.
August 1, 2018
Blindspotting – Q&A with Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal
by The National Board of Review
Can you talk about the collaboration between the two of you in terms of writing, producing, and performing this?
Rafael Casal: Yeah, Diggs, can you?
Daveed Diggs: I mean we’ve been working on this for ten years at this point with our two producing partners the whole time, Jess and Keith Calder.
July 19, 2018
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot – Q&A with Gus Van Sant, Kim Gordon, and Jonah Hill
by The National Board of Review
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.
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.