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Talking about making Emilia Pérez in a language that he doesn’t speak, Jacques Audiard stated “I’ve made a film in Spanish, I don’t speak Spanish, it’s the musicality of that language that really speaks to me.”
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Jacques Audiard shared “It’s funny what you’re saying. When I started making The Sisters Brothers with Joaquin Phoenix, I basically understand English but I don’t speak it, so we were working a few days before the shoot, and I said to Joaquin and asked how we should communicate, and he said telepathy and sometimes it works, not always.”
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On making Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard said “Well, we actually had a lot less means than the big American musicals. I would call what we did a modest musical. It was my first time doing a musical, but also my first time working in a studio. That was a shock and tremendous discovery.”
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Discussing his interest in film, Sean Baker shared “My mother introduced me to the movies when I was 5 years old. She took me to the local library where they were showing clips from the Universal monster films, and they got to Frankenstein, and my god, it just burned right into the prefrontal cortex, and I woke up the next morning and told my mom I wanted to make movies.”
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Talking about his other filmography, Sean Baker said “I actually think it was the research I did for Starlet. It came from some interactions I had with adult film stars on a television show. I would like to tell a story that focuses on them as people, not their career, because that’s often how they’re defined, and I don’t think that’s fair. I never wanted it to be a shtick though.”
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On how Mikey Madison was casted for Anora, Sean Baker stated “I cast the films along with my wife and producer. She really takes a major part of it, especially fleshing out my supporting cast. When it came to Mikey, no audition, easiest casting process ever. I saw her in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood…I said she’s our Annie, I’m calling her agent as soon as we step out of the theater.”
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Talking about writing The Brutalist with Mona Fastvold, Brady Corbet shared “We were introduced through a mutual friend years ago, Mona was married to someone else, and now we have a 10 year old daughter and have made a lot of films together.”
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Discussing The Brutalist, Brady Corbet stated “I think to a certain extent, we wanted to portray a relationship that we could relate to. Of course, in a David Lee film, when she gets off the train, everything would be ideal. This is a film being made 75 years later and I shouldn’t say that, we wanted there to be a really contemporary resonance to the relationships. They haven’t been able to be physically together for a decade and I thought that was really interesting.”
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On filmmaking, Brady Corbet explained “It’s a managerial job. You’re curating, relying on the support of others, and it requires financing and personnel. It’s not something you can do in your bedroom and during Covid we realized we really couldn’t do it in our bedroom.”
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Talking about her past work, Coralie Fargeat explained “When the movie was released, it was a coincidental Me Too story, so I had all the critics calling the movie feminist, and that’s how I realized I’m a feminist. It was a real revelation, putting words to how I’ve been feeling my whole life about the world. Then, I started to document myself much more and finding so many more interesting and depressing things about how the world is still shaped in an unequal way.”
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On The Substance character named Harvey, Coralie Fargeat shared “Well talking about symbolism, I think unfortunately this name became a symbolism, it reels of toxic behavior and the way it has been shaped and ruled by so much problematic behavior.”
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Discussing casting The Substance, Coralie Fargeat said “This casting process was a real tough challenge because as you said it was really confronting an actress with her worst fear, and I think a movie is really when a director and script meet an actor who is ready to tell the same story. I understand not everyone is ready to tell that story at that point in their life.”
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On his various past projects, James Mangold shared “I loved all these worlds. The only thing, and it almost sounds evasive but maybe it isn’t, it’s true for me, but when we think and talk and study film, when we debate film with each other, we put it in boxes. It makes it easier, but in my experience making all these movies, the biggest thing, I think, as you’ve listed them, is that they’re not so different and making them is not so different.”
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James Mangold said “I’m the son of two artists, two painters. The creative world is the world I’ve lived in all my life.”
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Talking about how A Complete Unknown came to be, James Mangold stated “What attracted me so profoundly is that there was a concentrated story between Dylan’s rival as a man with no name or a new name and later selling as many records as The Beatles and having a breakaway.”
