Niels Mueller on The Assassination of Richard Nixon 

Niels Mueller on The Assassination of Richard Nixon 

Michael Radford on The Merchant of Venice 

Lynn Collins on William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Career Highlights 

I have a need [to] express myself through different characters and at the same time have a chance to see the world with different points of view, may I agree or may I not agree with them. So, what's better than that? 

Alejandro Amenábar on The Sea Inside and Career Highlights 

Shane Carruth on Primer 

Mike Leigh on Vera Drake and Career Highlights 

Imelda Staunton on Vera Drake and Career Highlights 

Laura Linney on Kinsey, P.S., and Career Highlights 

Dylan Kidd on P.S. and Roger Dodger 

Marc Forster on Finding Neverland and Career Highlights 

Walter Salles on The Motorcycle Diaries and Career Highlights 

Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright on Shaun of the Dead 

Spike Lee on She Hate Me and Career Highlights 

Matthew Lillard & Dax Shepard on Without a Paddle 

Laura Dern on We Don't Live Here Anymore and Career Highlights 

John Sayles & Maggie Renzi on Silver City and Career Highlights 

Kyle MacLachlan on Touch of Pink and Career Highlights 

I fantasized that The Day After was going to contribute to the defeat of Ronald Reagan in the next presidential elections. This it utterly failed to do, but it did something more peculiar...it changed [his] mind about a winnable nuclear war. 

Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Jack McBrayer & Russell Brand: [Segel:] The sad reality was that for several years while I was out of work I had been writing a Dracula puppet musical. Without a sense of irony... 

Rebecca Murray of About.com: I'm wondering, was there ever a point where they almost gave you an NC-17 on this?
Wayne Kramer: Uh, yeah
RM: How did you keep them from doing that?
WK: You know, you can negotiate with them and say, 'Look, you're being too harsh. The film's going to be darker than what you're seeing.' What tends to happen is you b... 

Q: How you doing, Mr. Freeman? Doing much sailing lately?
Morgan Freeman: Uhhh—well, what do you mean by lately?
Q: Lately, I don't know: last week?
MF: No. No. Uh, I had six weeks in March and April, and I had a wonderful time—
Q: Your company was trying to do Rendezvous With Rama—
MF: (Chuckles.) We're still tryin... 

Q: This didn't strike me as a movie that's pitched particularly young—I thought had an adult appeal. A few jokes at the kid level at the end—you know, "Lighten up," that sort of thing—but mostly it struck me that it wasn't going in that direction. Am I right, or am I misperceiving?
CN: No, I think you're right. But I think tha... 

Q: First of all, congratulations. Great job.
SMC: Did you like the movie?
Q: Yes.
SMC: Oh, that's great. It makes our job easier.
KH: Exactly.
Q: You were phenomenal.
SMC: (Quietly.) Thank you.
Q: Were you a fan of the Batman franchise prior to being involved with this project?
SMC: Well, they were all sort of differen... 

Q: David, did you have a list of banned words—words that people couldn't say?
David Goyer: You mean in the movie?
Q: Yeah.
David Goyer: Like what?
Q: Like, I don't think we hear "Batmobile," do we? Has anybody called it "the Batmobile"?
DG: No, nobody. There wasn't a list, but—I don't think that ever occurred to us.... 

Q: Are you a Miyazaki fan?
CB: I—Spirited Away. I love Spirited Away, yeah.
Q: What weight are you at right now, just out of curiosity? You look a little smaller.
CB: I've got no idea, yeah. I'm going to be doin' a Werner Herzog movie and I kinda have to lose a bit of weight for that, just a little bit, so I'm just starting to diet n... 

Christian Bale: He-llo.
Q: Hello, sir. (Laughs.) How are ya?
CB: Good, thank you.
Q: Good deal. I was just wondering what is it like to be in that costume, considering the lineage behind it, and can you be expecting to make another Batman film after this one?
CB: It is—it's one hell of an honor to wear that Batsuit. Y'know? An... 

Groucho: Hello, Christian.
Christian Bale: Hello.
G: How did Christopher Nolan help to shepherd you through this role, and based on your mutual conception of Batman, can you give me your reading list essentials?
CB: Yeah, well, I mean Chris was really the reason that I wanted to do it. I had first read a graphic novel. I'm not a comic-b... 