Interviews | Little White Lies

Interviews

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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.
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Whit Stillman: ‘There would be a lot more Jane Austen movies if there were dollar signs’

by David Jenkins

The dean of Amer­i­can com­e­dy cin­e­ma talks tack­ling (and acing) a lost Jane Austen classic.
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Nicolas Winding Refn: ‘I wanted to make a film about the 16-year-old girl inside me’

by Adam Woodward

With The Neon Demon the Dan­ish writer/​director has made his most provoca­tive film yet. We trav­elled to Copen­hagen to meet him.
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Deniz Gamze Ergüven: ‘Women are perceived through a filter of sexualisation’

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The direc­tor of Mus­tang on why women must fight against con­ser­v­a­tive oppression.
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Jeremy Saulnier: ‘The motivations for the violence are all very practical’

by Anton Bitel

The Green Room direc­tor offers some sage advice on how to ride the wave of your first indie hit.
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Richard Linklater: ‘Making movies is a lot like putting a sports team together’

by Adam Woodward

LWLies steps up to the plate with the writer/​director of the sen­sa­tion­al Every­body Wants Some!!
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Tom Hiddleston: “I had to commit to Hank’s truth.”

by David Jenkins

The most-want­ed Brit star slinks into the boots of coun­try trou­ba­dour Hank Williams.
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Christian Bale: ‘Terrence Malick is a great destroyer of vanity’

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Wales’ finest son sheds his bat­suit to search for God and tran­scen­dence in Ter­rence Malick’s Knight of Cups.
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László Nemes: ‘I wanted recreate the experience of Auschwitz’

The Hun­gar­i­an direc­tor reveals how per­son­al obses­sion fuelled his award-win­ning Holo­caust dra­ma, Son of Saul.

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