The movie I looked at the most when writing The Lucky Ones was a great Jack Nicholson movie called “The Last Detail” directed by Hal Ashby. It's a very different story but it has a similar tone of humor and heartbreak. You get a real sense of what life was like in 1973 America and I wanted to do the same thing with The Lucky Ones, to have it be a real snapshot of today–Director Neil Burger

“Nights in Rodanthe” marks the third screen pairing of Richard Gere and Diane Lane. The two first met playing reckless lovers 24 years ago in Francis Ford Coppola's “The Cotton Club,” and more recently portrayed a couple whose faltering marriage still radiates heat in the memorable 2002 drama “Unfaithful.”

Cannes Film Fest 2008–I had the basic idea for the film in my mind, but I was not happy at all to do it in real life video. How would that have looked like A middle-aged man being interviewed against a black background, telling stories that happened 25 years ago, without any archival footage to support them. That would have been so boring! Then I figured out it could be done only in animation with fantastic drawings. War is so surreal, and memory is so tricky that I thought I'd better go all along the memory journey with the help of very fine illustrators–Ari Folman

“Lakeview Terrace isn't so much about race as it is about personal space, boundaries, turf and the lengths people will go to protect their property. I think everybody has had a situation here they've just moved in next to somebody who is ruining the quality of your life. It may be a barking dog or a kid with a garage band or something else, but we all know how little things between neighbors can escalate into gigantic feuds. This is the ultimate version of that story–Neil LaBute

I've always wanted to take a crack at that kind of comedic escapade. I gradually developed a story about these two brothers and a woman they meet. And eventually it evolved into a film about storytelling and the way we use storytelling in our lives–Writer-director Rian Johnson