What was the research process like, preparing to play such a quiet man with a strong presence?
Joel Edgerton: For Ruth and I, the documentary became a road map for us to think about the way we needed to look and how we needed to carry ourselves.
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October 2016
Q&A with Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham, Ben Foster, Marin Ireland, and Margaret Bowman
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.”
March 2021
Q&A with Jayro Bustamante and Gustavo Matheu
Can you tell us about the evolution of this film?
Jayro Bustamante: Well, you know, at the beginning we were thinking about making a triptych, and that that triptych would be about three insults that are common in Guatemala.
May 2018
Q&A with Jason Reitman, Charlize Theron, Ron Livingston, and Mackenzie Davis
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.
November 2019
Q&A with Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Daniel Craig, and Rian Johnson
Can you talk about writing this film and bringing these characters to life?
Rian Johnson: It all started with me loving Agatha Christie growing up.
October 2019
Q&A with James Mangold and Jenno Topping
Can you talk about what it was like to craft these characters?
James Mangold: I’m a big believer in hanging out. I am not a big believer in rehearsing.
July 2020
Q&A with James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham
How did you decide that co-directing this film was the best approach?
James Lebrecht: I’ve had the good fortune to have worked with Nicole on three of her films in the past, and we became friends over the years. I just loved her work!
October 2019
Q&A with James Gray
Your film is set in the near future, which makes sense given that there are currently plans being formed to transport humans to Mars. What did you learn in your research about such efforts?James Gray: I’m a little skeptical that they’d make it, but that is their dream. Mars can be either 80 or 160 […]
October 2021
Q&A with Jake Gyllenhaal
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of The Guilty. There are many constraints built into this film… you’re in a call center, on the phone, there’s limited space to move. What drew you to that? Jake Gyllenhaal: I guess I’m a fan of creating a certain type […]
October 2017
Q&A with J. Quinton Johnson, Richard Linklater, Laurence Fishburne, and Bryan Cranston
Can you talk about how found this story and why it’s important to tell now?
Richard Linklater: I read Darryl Ponicsan’s book and just loved the characters twelve years ago.
October 2019
Q&A with Ira Sachs and Isabelle Huppert
You are such a quintessential New York Filmmaker, Mr. Sachs, but now you’ve made this film set in Portugal. I was wondering how the story came to you and how you worked with your writing partner, Mauricio Zacharia, to develop this film?
Ira Sachs: Probably around fifteen years ago, I saw a film by Satyajit Ray, the Indian master Filmmaker, called Kanchenjungha. It’s about a family on a vacation in the Himalayan mountains, and it takes place in one day.
August 2014
Q&A with Ira Sachs, John Lithgow, Marisa Tomei, and Alfred Molina
Mr. Sachs, can you tell us about developing the story?
Sachs: This is my fifth feature, and all of my films – while not strictly autobiographical – are very personal to me, and connected to my own life on some level.
May 2022
Q&A with Hanna Bergholm
How did this project start, and how did you come to the story?
Hanna Bergholm: It started when the screenwriter Ilja Rautsi contacted me, and he told me he had this one sentence idea in his head: A boy hatches an evil doppelgänger out of an egg.
September 2022
Q&A with Halina Reijn
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of Bodies Bodies Bodies. How did your experience in the industry as an actress influence your approach to this film? Halina Reijn: Yeah, I used to be an actress, mostly on stage. I was in a theater company and lived in […]
May 2014
Q&A with Gia Coppola and Nat Wolff
The film is based on a book of short stories by James Franco. Can you tell us about how the project developed?
Coppola: James and I met up randomly – I had seen him at a deli and then later that night I ran into him again.