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Wildcat director Ethan Hawke tells us all about what he's learned in his 40 years of making movies
Martin McDonagh, director of the new The Banshees of Inisherin with In Bruges alums Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, knows…
Maggie Gyllenhaal shares what she's learned as a moviemaker over years of acting, and through directing her debut feature The…
Mahershala Ali tells us 10 things he's learned as a moviemaker. He stars in Apple TV+'s Swan Song which is…
Paul Verhoeven — the director behind RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct and now Benedetta — on writing satire, directing sex…
Do the Right Thing and Da 5 Bloods writer-director Spike Lee remembers his early days at NYU — and everything…
Robert Downey Jr. dishes on the importance of kindness, practicality and sanity he learned as a young, up-and-coming moviemaker.
Ken Burns, director of Civil War, Jazz and Hemingway on the joys of analog research, avoiding The Industry, and “intense,…
Falling writer-director and actor Viggo Mortensen on life experience, taking breaks, and staying up all night to watch the snow.
The work of Abel Ferrara has always mixed arthouse and grit, and four decades of moviemaking wisdom now infuse his…
Quentin Tarantino, director of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, is older, wiser, but no less wilder. Here, he shares…
"Only what one cares about will survive," and other insight Jonas Mekas has gleaned from six decades of shooting without…
Marc Forster, director of Finding Neverland, Monster's Ball, World War Z, and All I See Is You, shares what he's…
There’s a kind of irony to the story—that it was good reviews that made German director Uwe Boll (Rampage) quit…
Richard Ayoade is a cinephile. That much is made clear in Ayoade on Ayoade, his book of essays, interviews with…
Is it easy being cinema’s reigning enfant terrible? No, but Gaspar Noé wears the title well. Here are his 30…
Although I think of myself primarily as a writer, and I’ve written films, I’ve never directed a film. Most of
Billy Bob Thornton is a man who has lived many lives throughout his long, consistently intriguing career. He shares the…
This week’s Wisdom Wednesday brings you five short and punchy golden rules from Academy Award-winning documentarian Errol Morris.
This week, our Wednesday Words of Wisdom come from Wim Wenders (say that three times fast).
As a collaborator for Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Martin Scorsese and Mike Nichols, Michael Ballhaus has shot some of the most…
Three short, sweet points of advice from the master English director Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Kes,…
Director and screenwriter Brad Gann (Black Irish, Invincible, Soul Surfer) shares a few "Things I've Learned as a Moviemaker."
Daniel Pyne is the screenwriter behind The Manchurian Candidate (2004), The Sum of All Fears (2002) and Any Given Sunday…