There’s something really refreshing about just being engaged in a creative dialogue at all times. It keeps you really honest with what’s great about the story and it keeps you honest about making the best project possible … Continue readingJoe Swanberg & Radio Silence talk V/H/S

Paradoxically it’s more difficult in many ways to play a small role than when you’re in the film from beginning to end. But if you’re in a movie for a short time, there’s so much you have to invent to be a whole and credible human being. … Continue readingJohn Hawkes talks The Sessions

Usually in a story about a director, you’d say something about his or her filmography and style, but in the case of rapper turned actor turned director RZA (The Wu Tang Clan), we can only talk about the future. … Continue readingRZA talks The Man With The Iron Fists

Her first big budget mainstream attempt, The Darkest Hour, sputtered at the gate thanks to a critical drubbing, but she’s also appearing in Dredd, which many geeks and critics promise will make you forget the travesty of Stallone’s 1995 attempt. … Continue readingOlivia Thirlby talks Nobody Walks

After the billion-dollar haul of 2010’s Alice In Wonderland (only the second film to do so), one can imagine Disney executives sending gift baskets to Burton’s house daily begging him to come back and do another movie – any movie – for them. … Continue readingTim Burton talks Frankenweenie

I love making comedies. I love making people laugh. It’s something I kind of fell into by accident. I was interested in much more serious films, coming out of film school I’d written a lot of science fiction and bizarre art films. I thought that’s all I would do and I got tangled up in comedy through Mike Myers who drafted me into Austin Powers. … Continue readingJay Roach talks The Campaign

The main thing is that every horror film I’ve ever seen influenced the movie in one way or another. So it really is about the genre. But as a child of the ’80s, you know, the films of John Carpenter and Sam Raimi were definitely foremost in my mind when I made this movie. … Continue readingDrew Goddard talks Cabin in the Woods

Where else was there for the 59-year-old to go after that but Hollywood? His subsequent output wasn’t nearly as prolific as his pre-Shine documentary short career and since then he’s made arguably one of the best Stephen King adaptations in 2001’s Hearts In Atlantis and tackled a romantic comedy in 2007’s No Reservations. … Continue readingScott Hicks talks The Lucky One

My parents read fairy tales to me every night before bedtime. I grew up in the British countryside so I just ran around the garden pretending there was magic and fairies and I was part of the fairy tale. And Snow White was definitely one of my favourites. … Continue readingLily Collins talks Mirror, Mirror

I didn’t feel lost because it’s not so crazy and special effect-y. I mean, it was all kind of there for me, I never felt that I was looking at tennis balls or didn’t understand where I was. Even when we did the stuff in the cottage where I’m with myself as it were, we had worked it out so well. … Continue readingJulia Roberts talks Mirror, Mirror