For most of my life I felt like I wasn’t American enough for the Americans, nor was I Arab enough for the Arabs.  And as a Palestinian, I inherited my father’s quandary in not having a nation or a national identity, which only exacerbated my sense of not belonging anywhere.  My own desire for a place to call home, a place where I belonged, was always a very big part of my identity–Writer-director Cherien Dabis

Meryl Streep says the biggest thing she took away from her culinary scenes in “Julie & Julia” was the importance of good knives: “Chopping onions is a breeze if the thing is nice and heavy and has a great edge. As Julia says, ‘Always wash your knives, sharpen them, dry them and put them away.'  A sharp knife is everything!”

“Orphan” is a sophisticated movie that's also scary and thrilling and disturbing. It's not just an evil child movie, there's something much more insidious going on. It's going to keep audiences guessing, 'What is wrong with Esther?' And of course, we want them talking about it. But we hope they don't spoil the secret–Joel Silver 

“500 Days of Summer” began in angst.  It was sparked by two young screenwriters, one single and recovering from a badly bruised heart, the other in a long-term relationship, reminiscing over romances that could have been, that maybe should have been, but somehow just weren=t.  Almost everyone has had one and, in an age when everything seems to happen faster and more intensely, they seem to be ever more common.  So how, wondered Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber, does a young romantic survive such a reality?   And how could today=s version of romantic idealism be portrayed on the screen in a way it=s never really been seen before? 

Long fascinated by the intangible idea of love – and fundamentally not believing in “love at first sight” or any of that “Julia Roberts/English Patient /sobbing-in-the-rain stuff,” Charlyne Yi had always dreamt of making a documentary about the subject.  She knew “true love” was something everybody was searching for, so it was great subject matter. She found the people who actually believed in love endlessly fascinating–even though she herself thought it was all so much hot air.