Robert Schwentke is the director of “The Time Traveler's Wife,” starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, which New Line/ Warner will release August 14, 2009.

The Time Traveler's Wife is not a science fiction film. It is an emotional journey about two people in a relationship, and the time travel is the catalyst for things that both strengthen and test their bond–Robert Schwentke

I’m playing an ego booster, basically. Nikki is a guy searching for love in all the wrong ways. When he finally finds it, all the wrong ways in which he tried to find it come back to haunt him.  I understood the pain of the character,” he says. “I understood what he was ultimately seeking. I played ‘the game’ for long enough to know it doesn’t end well. The only way to win is through compassion and love, and trying to find the way to give to someone in the greatest way you possibly can–Ashton Kutcher

Audrey Tautou (“Amelie”) plays Coco Chanel in”Coco Before Chanel,” written and directed by Anne Fontaine, which is released September 25, 2009 by Sony Classics.

“The character of Coco Chanel has been hovering around me for several years. Premises of projects about her had been submitted to me before, but I did not want to do a biopic, i.e. participating in some sort of saga recounting her life from birth to death. Imagine, Chanel lived 87 years! We would inevitably have fallen in the clichés that have punctuated her path, and I was not interested in that. I was secretly hoping to get an offer with a particular point of view because the modernity of this character fascinates me, her spirit, and the position she gave women.“

Anne Fontaine is the writer/director of “Coco Before Chanel,” starring Audrey Tautou, which is being released September 25, 2009 by Sony Pictures Classics.

“Audrey very naturally embodies the androgynous—something that did not exist at the time and is essential to understand how Coco Chanel invented her style. Chanel drew her inspiration from her own personality; she composed her style on her body, her difference, and her vitality. Today androgyny is in fashion, but at the time of Chanel, women were curvaceous and plump”

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