There were two catalysts. The first was playing Coriolanus in a stage production in 2000, and believing that this play of Shakespeare’s could become a contemporary, urgent political thriller, with a Greek tragedy at its center, involving the mother and the son. And there’s something in the spirit of Coriolanus, in the essence of his character, which spoke to me very strongly and wouldn’t leave me.
We Bought a Zoo: True Story
December 23, 2011 by
“It was about an 18 month period between 2006 and 2007 where our family, more or less accidentally, decided to buy a zoo.”–Benjamin Mee
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Interview with Director Stephen Daldry
December 16, 2011 by
When director Stephen Daldry, a three-time Oscar-nominee for “The Reader,” “The Hours” and “Billy Elliot,” read the book, he was struck most of all by Oskar’s subjective point of view. An unusual child with arrestingly high intelligence yet eccentric and obsessive behaviors that might put him on the autistic spectrum, Oskar describes the world around him with his own particular mix of naiveté and insight, nervousness and boldness, incomprehension and a need to understand.
In the Land of Blood and Honey by Angelina Jolie
December 9, 2011 by
“The cast didn’t know who was behind the film, or the size of it; I kept my name off the scripts. I just wanted to know if they were responding to the material.”–Director Angelina Jolie
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Interview with Director Tomas Alfredson
December 7, 2011 by
“There’s also the factor of, ‘I know something that you don’t know.’ Say that, or hint that, to someone, and you’ve got their attention and are getting into their head.”–Director Tomas Alfredson
