Yes, I think there is--we took that idea quite serious: that there is an artist in a very difficult, let's say, in kind of an exaggerated obsessive mode. 
Groucho Reviews
Latest Interviews
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Tom Tykwer—Perfume: The Story of a Murderer—11/10/06
Yes, I think there is--we took that idea quite serious: that there is an artist in a very difficult, let's say, in kind of an exaggerated obsessive mode. -
George Takei—Star Trek—11/10/06
Children are amazingly adaptable. I remember the barbed-wire fence. That was a part of the landscape I grew up in. I remember the sentry towers and machine guns pointed at us...as I said, 'With liberty and justice for all...' I didn't relate the two. -
Christopher Guest & Eugene Levy—For Your Consideration—11/10/06
[Guest:] 'I could tell, her head was exploding. And I said, "What's going on?" She said, "Everyone wants a wig."' -
Darren Aronofsky—The Fountain—10/31/06
My grandma was ninety-three, and she had a heart attack and they tried to resuscitate her three times. They broke her ribs; they shoved pipes down her throat...It's just--it's butchery. So I think you can go too far. -
Eric Schlosser—Fast Food Nation—10/19/06
Eric Schlosser: 'Rick and I both really structure our works before we sit down to write them. So it was actually a really easy and natural collaboration.' -
Todd Field—Little Children—10/18/06
Todd Field on Eyes Wide Shut: 'Probably the polite thing I would say is "no comment," but the truth is...you've never seen two actors more completely subservient, and prostate themselves at the feet of a director.' -
Rupert Grint—Driving Lessons—10/18/06
Rupert Grint: 'Suddenly the car starts to roll. Roll towards the crew. And I had to dive in there and pull the handbrake. It was quite close, actually.' -
Augusten Burroughs—Running With Scissors—10/12/06
Augusten Burroughs: 'We didn't have sex because we had to find a way to show each other how much we loved each other. We had sex as a way to operate with each other, and that just warped me, you know, for years.' -
Tim Robbins, Phillip Noyce, Shawn Slovo, & Robyn Slovo—Catch a Fire—10/11/06
Tim Robbins, Phillip Noyce, and Shawn and Robyn Slovo: [Robbins:] 'That Afrikaaner policeman...was made out to be the bad guy when in fact the people that set the policy wound up in mansions with very large pensions.' -
Forest Whitaker—The Last King of Scotland—10/06/06
Forest Whitaker: 'I'm always talking about it in such a technical way, but I have to be honest: it's really much more of a spiritual experience for me...working as an actor.' -
John Cameron Mitchell—Shortbus—09/20/06 & 06/19/06
John Cameron Mitchell: 'Why not just use all the connections that sex has? You know, sex is certainly the spinal cord that connects to all these different organs in our life...' -
Alex Pettyfer & Anthony Horowitz—Stormbreaker—09/18/06
Alex Pettyfer: 'He's a normal guy, you know? An average Joe who has capabilities that are just far out like a little mini--not mini-Bond, but a mini-Jason Bourne, shall we say.' -
Jet Li—Jet Li's Fearless—09/11/06
Jet Li: 'If you play a cop, or the tough guy, Mafia, whatever, you need to think first. You need to understand the character, the personality. Then you put a different move for the character.' -
James Ellroy—The Black Dahlia, L.A. Confidential—08/21/06
Motion-picture dysfunctionalism trumps development every time. I would be insane to think that any original screenplay that I'm commissioned to write would ever end up as a movie. -
Tony Jaa—The Protector—08/16/06
Tony Jaa: 'You can either change your movements from being a trunk grabbing a person's leg or arms, you can always change it to make it into the elephant's tusk, you know?' -
Neil Burger—The Illusionist—07/31/06
Neil Burger: 'He gets arrested at the end of the short story...for blurring the distinction between art and reality...it's an abstract, intellectual idea and not kind of emotional or impactful enough to hang the climax of a movie on...' -
Broken Lizard's Steve Lemme & Erik Stolhanske—Beerfest—07/31/06
Steve Lemme and Erik Stolhanske: [Lemme:] I'll issue this challenge now. I am the best Robotron player...on the planet. I dare anybody to come and beat me at Robotron. That's a game from like 1952.' -
Armistead Maupin & Patrick Stettner—The Night Listener—07/26/06
Armistead Maupin & Patrick Stettner: '[Maupin:] I'm aware that my best material comes from the truth of my own life, so I try to use it as much as possible. And I have confidence in those emotions.' -
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris—Little Miss Sunshine—7/18/06
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris: '[Dayton:] We took all the actors out to lunch and asked that they stay in character.' -
Elisha Cuthbert—The Quiet—07/12/06
Elisha Cuthbert: 'And here I am playing a seventeen-year-old. Not just physically, but mentally getting into that place. It was really difficult. And I don't know if I could ever do it again.' -
Jamie Babbit—The Quiet—07/12/06
Jamie Babbit: 'You know, I've had so many battles with the MPAA...I think young people will definitely find the film...[and] I think it got the rating that it deserved.' -
Larry Clark—Wassup Rockers—06/26/06
Larry Clark: 'Jonathan and Kiko, one day, didn't go to school...And I said, "Why aren't you going to school?" and they said, "We don't feel like fighting today."' -
Amy Sedaris—Strangers With Candy—06/23/06
I like to play and make believe, you know, like Johnny Depp is in his pirate movie. So I'm not digging in deep. -
François Ozon—Time to Leave—06/19/06
It's not obvious to have a male character in this kind of story, I think, because very often the films with men are about action and not interiority... -
Lily Tomlin—A Prairie Home Companion—05/05/06
Lily Tomlin: 'I had this dream several times once...I was playing on the stage, and it was like--there was a medieval audience...And they were doing everything--talking, drinking, fornicating, everything--in the audience...' -
Garry Marshall—Keeping Up With the Steins—05/05/06
Garry Marshall: 'Jack Klugman always said, "Oh, Felix and I make up too easy. Make it harder, make it difficult. Make him really not let [me] in." And that's what we did in Keeping Up With the Steins.' -
Andy Garcia—The Lost City—05/01/06
Andy Garcia: 'I think it's the nature of exile: you have this profound nostalgia for where you come from.' -
Deepa Mehta—Water—03/20/06
Deepa Mehta: 'I said to myself that I would definitely make Water, but that I would make it when I stopped being angry. And that anger took about four years to dissipate.' -
Paul Weitz—American Dreamz—03/14/06
Paul Weitz: 'The fact that it's a comedy allows people kind of a pressure release, and they're actually glad to be laughing at the things that they're stressing out about most of the time.' -
William H. Macy and Stuart Gordon—Edmond—03/11/06
William H. Macy and Stuart Gordon: '[Macy:] I don't know if I find him a repulsive character. As a matter of fact, I don't....all the little pieces I find to be logical and true, true to the human experience.' -
Fernando Eimbcke—Duck Season—02/24/06
After a run-up of short films, Fernando Eimbcke makes his feature directing debut with Temporada de patos (Duck Season). The picture scored 11 Ariel Awards (Mexico's equivalent of the Oscars), including the Silver Ariel for Best Director. I spoke with Eimbcke at San Francisco's Clift Hotel on February 24, 2006.
G: I wanted to talk first about the... -
Noel Neill—Superman Returns—02/20/06
Noel Neill on Bryan Singer: 'He's good on his feet. And I think he's--well, naturally, hope he's going to do well, because it's a tough thing for him. But he's an awfully nice person.' -
Walter Koenig—Star Trek—02/14/06
Walter Koenig has played the character of Pavel Chekov in thirty-six original-series episodes, seven films, six video games, an webisode of Star Trek: New Voyages, and the 40th Anniversary internet miniseries Star Trek: Of Gods and Men. But there's more to Koenig than Chekov, whether it's his role as the villainous Alfred Bester in Babylon 5 or his... -
Jason Reitman—Thank You for Smoking—02/14/06
Jason Reitman: 'We kind of went away for a few minutes, and he came back and said, "I got it." "Oh, what is it?" "The great state of Vermont will not apologize for its cheese." Brilliant.' -
J.J. Abrams—Mission: Impossible III—02/11/06
J.J. Abrams: 'One of the most fun aspects of the TV show, as a kid always loving it, was this team...in many ways that show was sort of the C.S.I. of its time.' -
Paul Walker & Wayne Kramer—Running Scared—02/11/06
Paul Walker & Wayne Kramer: 'I loved the mobsters, man. I mean growing up as a kid it was cowboys and Indians and it was mobsters. I mean, that's an American childhood, you know?' -
Bryan Singer & Brandon Routh—Superman Returns—02/11/06 & 07/16/05
[Routh:] 'There was always a door open for change, for new creations to happen on the day.' -
Joseph Gordon-Levitt—Brick—02/10/06
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: 'He looks around at the world and sees it as a corrupt, petty, no-good affair.' -
Robert Towne—Ask the Dust—02/07/06
Robert Towne: 'Self-absorbed, narcissistic, manic depressive, mean-spirited because he's jealous and angry that nobody knows who he is....How can I not identify with that?' -
Q'Orianka Kilcher—The New World—01/06/06
Q'Orianka Kilcher on The New World: 'I fell backwards. Because the mud suddenly felt so heavy...that was probably one of the greatest mistakes that happened on set.'