How do you approach these two very different characters who are the same person?
With excitement, because it’s a nice challenge. To play an older man, and then a younger man.
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November 2019
Q&A with Laura Dern, Adam Driver, and Noah Baumbach
Can you talk about conceiving this story, and you’re writing process?
Noah Baumbach: It was inherent in the title that we are asking, “Does anyone really know what the story of a marriage is, and if that story has an end of sorts, does it mean it wasn’t a marriage?”
August 2017
Q&A with Kumail Nanjiani, Emily Gordon, and Zoe Kazan
How long did it take for you both to adapt your own experiences for the screen?
Emily Gordon: We started writing this five years ago, which is five years after the events of the movie.
February 2023
Q&A with Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Helen Hood Scheer
How did you two come to work on this project together?
We started working on what we thought would be a triptych, looking at sex, birth, and death on screen from a women’s perspective. We started the one about sex and it was an avalanche of ideas and people and different actors that we wanted to speak with, and that’s really where it began.
August 2020
Q&A with Kris Rey and Gillian Jacobs
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of I Used to Go Here. What was the inspiration for the film? Kris Rey: I found the inspiration for the movie when I was on tour with my last film [Unexpected] four years ago. I got invited to a bunch […]
March 2022
Q&A with Kogonada
How did that expansion work? How do you open up that short story?
Kogonada: I had the best experience a filmmaker can have with an author.
November 2020
Q&A with Kirsten Johnson
Sometimes as a documentarian, you don’t have total control. But it this film you were able to script things and envision scenarios.
Kirsten Johnson: Honestly I was trying to engage in not being in control.
December 2016
Q&A with Kenneth Lonergan, Michelle Williams, Lucas Hedges, and Casey Affleck
Can you talk about playing someone who is emotionally disconnected or doesn’t show emotion?
Casey Affleck: I don’t often think myself about how much emotion I’m showing in real life.
April 2023
Q&A with Kelly Reichardt
How did you get from First Cow to this story?
Kelly Reichardt: Well, both films were written with Jonathan Raymond and we started out with this idea of making a film of this little-known Canadian painter, Emily Carr. We wanted to focus on a ten-year period of her life when she was a landlord.
November 2022
Q&A with Kathryn Ferguson
This is a somewhat personal film for you— and it’s your first feature. Can you discuss how you came to make this film?
Kathryn Ferguson: I grew up in Northern Ireland. My father, actually, was a huge fan of Sinéad’s in the late ’80’s, when The Lion and The Cobra came out
August 2017
Q&A with Kathryn Bigelow, John Boyega, Will Poulter, and Kaitlyn Dever
When you first read the script and found it to be based on a real event, what was your reaction?
John Boyega: I think I was just a bit shocked that I didn’t know about this specific event.
October 2017
Q&A with Kate Winslet, Hany Abu-Assad, and Lee Percy
What attracted you to this project?
Kate Winslet: When I first read the script, I was really taken by the physical demands.
December 2013
Q&A with Justin Chadwick, Anant Singh, Idris Elba, and Naomie Harris
Would you have made the film any other way, looking back?
Having been in this industry for a long time, trying to get movies made is very challenging under any circumstances.
November 2017
Q&A with Julie Goldman, Samantha Power, Greg Barker
What was the process like to bring this film together?
Julie Goldman: This is our sixth film together, so we have an established and unusual machine that works for our flow of producing.
November 2017
Q&A with Julianne Moore, Jaden Michael, Oakes Fegley, Brian Selznick, and Todd Haynes
What was it like adapting your book into your first screenplay?
Brian Selznick: I started writing the screenplay secretly at night when I was illustrating and writing another book.