Interviews
This is an archive of interviews I’ve done with actors, filmmakers and writers over the past few years.
All of these start with the most recent and go back to April 2007, but I’ll be adding older ones to the list over the next few months.
You can also subscribe to our interview podcast via iTunes or RSS feed and if you have any questions just email me at podcast@filmdetail.com
Click on the links below to go to the original post where you can download or listen to the interviews on the site.
2010
- Pierre Rissient on Breathless
- Craig McCall on Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
- Riz Ahmed and Nigel Lindsay on Four Lions
- Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas on American: The Bill Hicks Story
- Joe Pilato on Day of the Dead
- Jenny Agutter on The Railway Children
- Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire on Johnny Mad Dog
- Anna Kendrick on Up in the Air
- Joe Penhall on The Road
2009
- James Schamus on Taking Woodstock
- Nicholas Jasenovec and Charlyne Yi on Paper Heart
- Jon Amiel on Creation
- Tom Hooper on The Damned United
- Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal on The Hurt Locker
- Dave Gibbons on Watchmen
- Lance Daly on Kisses
- Carlos Cuaron on Rudo y Cursi
- Richard Stanley on Hardware
- Nick Moran and Con O’Neill on Telstar
- Kevin Sampson on Awaydays
- Ben Barnes and Jessica Biel on Easy Virtue
- Henry Selick on Coraline
- Eran Creevy and Daniel Mays on Shifty
- Justin Lin on Fast & Furious
- Kari Scogland on Fifty Dead Men Walking
- Tomas Alfredson on Let The Right One In
- Larry Charles on Religulous
- Paolo Sorrentino on Il Divo
- Guillermo Arriaga on The Burning Plain
- Emily Blunt & Rupert Friend on The Young Victoria
- John Patrick Shanley on Doubt
- John Lasseter on Bolt
- Robyn Hitchcock on Rachel Getting Married
- Valkyrie Interviews
- Gabriele Muccino on Seven Pounds
- Darren Aronofsky and Mickey Rourke on The Wrestler
- Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott on Role Models
- Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Ed Zwick on Defiance
- Danny Boyle on Slumdog Millionaire
- Stephen Daldry and Ralph Fiennes on The Reader
2008
- Danny Wallace on Yes Man
- Alex Gibney on Gonzo
- Robert Pattinson on Twilight
- Scott Derrickson on The Day The Earth Stood Still
- Samuel L Jackson on Lakeview Terrace
- Jonás and Alfonso Cuarón on Año Uña
- Fernando Meirelles on Blindness
- Ari Folman on Waltz With Bashir
- Bernd Eichinger on The Baader Meinhof Complex
- Stephan Elliott and Colin Firth on Easy Virtue
- Cam Gigandet on Twilight
- Liam Cunningham on Hunger
- Mark Hartley on Not Quite Hollywood
- Toa Fraser on Dean Spanley
- Ian Freer on Reservoir Dogs
- Noel Clarke and Adam Deacon on AdULTHOOD
- Eliot Grove on The Raindance Film Festival 2008
- Matteo Garrone on Gomorrah
- Tarsem Singh on The Fall
- Matthew Goode and Hayley Atwell on Brideshead Revisted
- Simon Pegg and Robert B. Weide on How To Lose Friends & Alienate People
- Paul W.S. Anderson and Jason Statham on Death Race
- David Thomson on Have You Seen?
- Walter Salles on Linha De Passe
- David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga and Rupert Friend on The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
- James Watkins on Eden Lake
- Mark Herman and John Boyne on The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
- Seth Rogen and James Franco on Pineapple Express
- Guillermo Del Toro on Hellboy II: The Golden Army
- Anthony Daniels on Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Adam Sandler on You Don’t Mess With The Zohan
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead on Make It Happen
- Luc Jacquet on The Fox and the Child
- Ben Kingsley on Elegy
- Philippe Petit on Man on Wire
- Angus Maclane on WALL-E
- Simon Tatum on The Last Freak Show
- Richard Jenkins and Tom McCarthy on The Visitor
- Akiva Goldsman and Peter Berg on Hancock
- Jason Bateman and Charlize Theron on Hancock
- John Hensley on Teeth
- Peter Biskind on Miramax
- Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck on Gone Baby Gone
- Neil Marshall on Doomsday
- Morgan Spurlock on Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
- Stephen Morris on Joy Division
- Jessica Alba on The Eye
- Jim Sturgess and Kate Bosworth on 21
- Kevin Spacey on 21
- Garth Jennings, Jessica Hynes, Bill Milner and Will Poulter on Son of Rambow
- Chris Coen on Funny Games
- David Sington on In the Shadow of the Moon
- Andy Serkis, Paul Andrew Williams, Jennifer Ellison and Reese Shearsmith on The Cottage
- Barry Norman on United Artists
- Pete Travis and Matthew Fox on Vantage Point
- Stuart Cooper on Overlord
- Catherine Owens on U2 3D
- Uma Thurman on The Accidental Husband
- Vincent Cassell on Eastern Promises
- Sylvester Stallone on Rambo
- Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson on Jumper
- Amanda Berry of BAFTA
- Paul Haggis on In the Valley of Elah
- Kelly MacDonald on No Country for Old Men
- Hilary Swank on P.S. I Love You
2007
- Gemma Arterton, Talulah Riley, Rupert Everett and Colin Firth on St Trinians
- Simon J Smith on Bee Movie
- Timothy Olyphant on Hitman
- Werner Herzog on Rescue Dawn
- Neil Innes and Carol Cleveland on Monty Python
- Michael Pena and Andrew Garfield on Lions for Lambs
- Carlos Reygadas on Silent Light
- Ken Loach on The Ken Loach Collection
- John Carney on Once
- David Cronenberg on Eastern Promises
- Stefan Ruzowitzky and Karl Markovics on The Counterfeiters
- Barrington Pheloung on And When Did You Last See Your Father?
- Sam Riley, Tony Kebbell and Samantha Morton on Control
- Vince Papale on Invincible
- Jeffrey Blitz on Rocket Science
- Jonah Hill, Michael Cera and Christopher Mintz-Plasse on Superbad
- Clive Owen on Shoot Em Up
- Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Dylan Moran and David Schwimmer on Run, Fatboy Run
- Thomas Turgoose, Andrew Shim and Vicky McClure on This is England
- Jonathan King on Black Sheep
- Taika Waititi on Eagle vs Shark
- Nathalia Ramos, Logan Browning, Skyler Shaye and Janel Parrish on Bratz: The Movie
- Michael Apted on Amazing Grace and the Up documentaries
- Matt Groening and Al Jean on The Simpsons Movie
- Nikki Blonsky, Amanda Bynes, Elijah Kelly and Zac Efron on Hairspray
- Jeremy Bulloch and Steve Sansweet on Star Wars
- Rupert Grint on Harry Potter
- Justin Long and Timothy Olyphant on Die Hard 4.0
- Suzanne Lloyd on Harold Lloyd
- Elisha Cuthbert on Captivity
- David Harewood on Blood Diamond
- Guillaume Canet on Tell No One
- David Holmes on Ocean’s Thirteen
- Nick and Marc Francis on Black Gold
- Jason Biggs on Wedding Daze
- Cannes 2007 Interviews: Anna Fiorentini, John Adams and Rob Johnson
- Jake Gylenhaal on Zodiac
- James McAvoy on The Last King of Scotland
- Gabriele Muccino on The Pursuit of Happyness
- Stevan Riley on Blueblood
- Shilpa Shetty on Life in a Metro
- Robert Carlyle, Harold Perrineau, Jeremy Renner and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo on 28 Weeks Later
- Saadi Yacef on The Battle of Algiers
- James Franco, Topher Grace and Sam Raimi on Spider-Man 3
- John Curran and Edward Norton on The Painted Veil
- Rosamund Pike on Fracture
- Marc Munden on The Mark of Cain
- Kirby Dick on This Film is Not Yet Rated
- Danny Boyle on Sunshine
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