Your films feel so naturalistic— as though you just took your crew to a location and filmed what was going on there. But the reality is quite different, isn’t it?
Chloé Zhao: Well, the trick is to make the audience feel like we just showed up.
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May 2018
Q&A with Chloé Zhao and Brady Jandreau
Can you take us through the process of making this film? There was a long period of time when you were building toward something like this.
Chloé Zhao: During my third year at NYU, I was thinking about what feature film to make. That’s when I first went out to Pine Ridge.
November 2015
Q&A with Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Phyllis Nagy, and Todd Haynes
You’ve been with this project for 18 years. What’s the process been like?
Phyllis Nagy: Until the current team came aboard, there was me and a computer that sat on idle for five years
October 2015
Q&A with Cate Blanchett, James Vanderbilt, Dan Rather, and Robert Redford
What compelled you to make this film?
Vanderbilt: I’ve always been fascinated with journalism and I always sort of looked at it as the road not taken.
September 2020
Q&A with Bush + Renz
At what point in the filmmaking process did you realize you were going to structure the movie as you did, shifting perspective from Eden to Victoria?
Gerard Bush: Well, first, since the movie was based on a nightmare that I had, and since that really is what the nightmare showed me, it felt important to both of us that we respect that source material!
October 2015
Q&A with Brie Larson
Can you talk about finding this role and the decision to take it?
I had read the book maybe a year before the script was sent to me and I just loved it. A book hadn’t suspended my disbelief in that way, and I’m always reading. I love to read.
September 2022
Q&A with Brett Morgen
This film was created with something of a new genre in mind: the “IMAX music experience.” Can you talk about that decision?
Brett Morgen: I have been doing biographical documentaries for the past twenty years. And when I finished Montage of Heck, I just… kind of feel like, for music documentaries… I love these speakers [gesturing around the theater]. I don’t think facts need to be delivered through these speakers!
May 2015
Q&A with Brett Haley, Blythe Danner, and Sam Elliot
Why did you choose to tell this particular story?
The first thing people say when they see me – since I’m a young guy – is you made this?
July 2018
Q&A with Boots Riley, Lakeith Stanfield, and Jermaine Fowler
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.
July 2020
Q&A with Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk
How did you decide what to include and how to show how the puzzle pieces fit together?
That was the main question in the beginning, because it is so overwhelming. It’s likely there are at least 500 survivors of Nassar alone.
September 2016
Q&A with Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, Tori Amos and Daisy Coleman
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 2020
Q&A with Benjamin Ree and Barbora Kysilkova
Can you both discuss how this film came about?
Benjamin Ree: The film began with me researching art robberies.
August 2013
Q&A with Benedict Cumberbatch, Zachary Quinto, and Chris Pine
Why do audiences love Kirk and Spock so much? What gives their relationship such dynamism?
Pine: I think the Enterprise represents, psychologically speaking, parts of one person. I always think of the triumvirate of McCoy, Kirk and Spock as representing parts of a single human being.
June 2022
Q&A with Baz Luhrmann, Austin Butler, Olivia DeJonge, and Yola
Baz, I read that you were not setting out to make a biopic. Tell us a bit about that approach and how that informed the film we saw today?
I love a good biopic as much as anyone, but they tend to be formulaic… someone is born, then this happens, then that happens
August 2015
Q&A with Barry Crimmins and Bobcat Goldthwait
How did this film develop?
Barry had written an article for the Boston Phoenix about his experience testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. It’s just so funny and well written… it reminded me of a Frank Capra story.