In this vintage interview with IdeasTrap, Daniel Kleinman, the director of the opening sequences for every Bond film since Goldeneye (except for Quantum of Solace) talks about what it’s like working in the commercial directing realm.Read More
No when you say you’re reading Playboy for the articles, you won’t be lying. In this interview, Quentin Tarantino talks on rewriting history, Django Unchained, drugs (never on set), marriage, and hints at a possible retirement not far into the future. PLAYBOY: You killed Hitler in Inglourious Basterds, with Jewish soldiers scalping Nazis. In DjangoUnchained you have a liberated slave turned Read MoreRead More
Jada Yuan spoke to David O Russell at the Silver Linings Playbook New York Premiere about the film’s climactic dance sequence, his reading habits, and what it’s like to work with the heroine of The Hunger Games. Have you been aspiring to do a dance sequence in a movie for a while? I did a dance Read MoreRead More
Jimmy Kimmel sits down with an interview with the legendary Mel Brooks from The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, and SpaceballsRead More
Director Sam Mendes shares his thoughts on the process of creating visual style in the films Skyfall, Road to Perdition and American Beauty at an AFI Harold Lloyd Master Seminar.Read More
“Your mama’s blocking is so two dimensional that she might as well work in animation” – Okay, maybe I need to work on my filmmaking comebacks. Here are 30 harsh insults from filmmakers luckily non of them 1. Francois Truffaut on Michelangelo Antonioni: “Antonioni is the only important director I have nothing good to say about. He Read MoreRead More
Martin Scorsese touches on topics ranging from violence in films to the preservation of classic movies.Read More
David Yateshas helmed the director’s seat for the final four Harry Potter films. In this talk at London Screenwriters’ Festival he talks about how a Lancashire lad with a solid reputation in directing acclaimed shorts and TV productions such as State of Play, Sex Traffic and the Girl in the Cafe suddenly finds himself in the Read MoreRead More
This is Stanley Kubrick’s speech accepting the DW Griffith Award. Kubrick talks about a conversation he had with Steven Spielberg about the hardest part about directing and compares Griffith with Icarus.Read More
These are names you’ve heard of – accomplished directors and filmmakers offering bits of advice for the filmmakers following in their footsteps. View Playlist on YouTubeRead More
Eli Roth speaks about how he took his film and marketing into his own hands and developed ways to carefully plan and sell his films. For filmmaker Eli Roth, it’s sometimes necessary to take even the minutest matters into your own hands. “Every single time I see a cut of any of my trailers, if Read MoreRead More
RZA, the defacto leader of the Wu Tang Gang, opens up about directing his first feature film, working with Russell Crowe, Eli Roth, and Quentin Tarantino, practicing on the Canon 5d, and the unexpected influence of a Natalie Wood musical. Over two years ago, we interviewed RZA at Fantastic Fest when he was prepping his Kung Read MoreRead More
