In Conversation | Little White Lies

In Conversation

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Interviews

Taika Waititi: ‘I often fantasise about stopping making films’

by Poppy Doran

The Kiwi writer/​director talks poking fun at his homeland and why he won’t be making movies forever.
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David Mackenzie: ‘My film asks some important questions about America’

by Adam Woodward

The Hell or High Water director on the themes and influences that make up his finely crafted anti-western.
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Mathieu Amalric: ‘Some people need to have sex every day’

by David Jenkins

The French actor and sometime director discusses his deliciously nasty take on a Georges Simenon classic.
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Todd Phillips: ‘The world is waking up to the fact that the system is rigged’

by Adam Woodward

The War Dogs director talks truth, Trump and why laughter will always be the best medicine.
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Brady Corbet: ‘I wanted to make a poetic film about politics’

by Ed Gibbs

The actor discusses stepping behind the lens for his startling directorial debut The Childhood of a Leader.
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Jaume Collet-Serra: ‘If I was in that situation, I would die in two seconds’

by Adam Nayman

The Spanish genre master on directing The Shallows, working with SFX and why Orphan is so funny.
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Alex Cox: ‘I’m more sympathetic to Lydon’s point of view than ever’

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The director of Sid and Nancy reflects on the mistakes he made and discovering Gary Oldman.
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Jeff Goldblum: ‘Finding out our relationship to the universe – that would be something’

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Independence Day: Resurgence sees Jeff Goldblum return as Earth’s lone voice of interplanetary reason.
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Interviews

Apichatpong Weerasethakul: ‘Steven Spielberg turned me on to making movies’

by Matt Thrift

The Thai master from the little town of Khon Kaen on the movies and directors that inspired him.
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Hiromasa Yonebayashi: ‘The history of Studio Ghibli is also a history of myself’

by David Jenkins

Meet the director of the beautiful new film widely rumoured to be Studio Ghibli’s last hurrah.