Interviews [Audio]
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Audio interviews with screenwriters and TV writers.
How Pro Screenwriters Beat Writer’s Block: Including Aaron Sorkin, Jordan Peele, Dustin Lance Black, Charlie Kaufman, Dan Gilroy, Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Robert Towne, and more
Beyond Words 2023: Including Joe Robert Cole (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), Rian Johnson (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery), Sarah Polley (Women Talking), Todd Field (Tár), Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Seth Reiss (The Menu).
Beyond Words 2024: Including Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik — May December, Alex Convery — Air, Greta Gerwig — Barbie, David Hemingson — The Holdovers, Julia Cox — Nyad, Kelly Fremon Craig — Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret., Cord Jefferson — American Fiction, Eric Roth — Killers of the Flower Moon.
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
Dan Harmon, Kyle Killen, Chris McKenna, and Charles Murray
Producers Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson (Prisoners)
Liz Craft, Sarah Fain & Angela Kain, and Liz Meriwether
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story)
Arndt, Michael and Unkrich, Lee (Toy Story 3)
Peter Bogdanovich with Orson Wells (3 hours of several interviews)
Chandler, Raymond and Fleming, Ian
Damien Chazelle with Jon Favreau (La La Land)
Alex Convery (Air)
Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men | Behind the Curtain)
Brian De Palma with Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow
Ava DuVernay (Vulture TV Podcast — “Queen Sugar”)
Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (The Way Way Back)
Hannah Fidell and Will Brittain (A Teacher)
Samuel Goldwyn, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Marlon Brando (Guys and Dolls)
James Gray and Jeff Nichols (Loving)
Scott Frank with Brian Koppelman (The Moment)
Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird)
James Gray with Bret Easton Ellis
Alfred Hitchcock with Francois Truffaut (25 episodes)
Rian Johnson with Spike Jonze (Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Last Jedi)
Lisa Joy, Jonah Nolan, Evan Rachel Wood (‘Westworld’)
Craig Mazin with Brian Koppelman (The Moment)
Frederick Mensch, Elliott Lester, David Oyelowo (Nightengale)
Christopher Nolan with Rian Johnson (Interstellar)
Joshua Oppenheimer and Werner Herzog (The Act of Killing)
Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls, and David Fincher (Fight Club)
Martin Scorcese with Alexander Payne (Silence)
Steven Soderbergh and Mark Romanek
Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, and Eric Roth (Dune)
Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina, Darla K. Anderson (Coco)
Beau Willimon with Brian Koppelman (The Moment)
Edgar Wright with Christopher Nolan (Baby Driver)
Maren, Ade (BAFTA Lecture)
Affleck, Ben (The Town)
Amini, Hossein (Drive)
Anderson, Paul Thomas (Behind The Curtain)
Apatow, Judd (The Nerdist)
Arndt, Michael (Writers Guild of America East)
Arriaga, Guillermo (Raindance Film Festival)
Baker, Sean (BAFTA Lecture)
Barnow, Kate and Finch, Elisabeth (No Ordinary Family)
Bass, Ron (Rain Man)
Beaufoy, Simon (BAFTA Lecture)
Boal, Mark (BAFTA Lecture)
Bovell, Andrew (BAFTA Lecture)
Bradbury, Ray (1972)
Buffini, Moira (BAFTA Lecture)
Bujalski, Andrew (Computer Chess)
Chaganty, Aneesh (Searching)
Chazelle, Damien (Whiplash)
Erickson, Dan (Severance | 3rd & Fairfax)
Fisher, Mickey (Extant, Reverie)
Flanagan, Mike (Doctor Sleep)
del Toro, Guillermo (The Shape of Water)
Grant, Susannah (BAFTA Lecture)
Griffin, Ted and Nathanson, Jeff (Tower Heist)
Heinz, Andres and Heyman, Mark (Black Swan)
Beaufoy, Simon (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen)
Beaufoy, Simon (BAFTA Lecture)
Brackett, Leigh (The Big Sleep, Bus Stop, The Manchurian Candidate)
Burns, Ed (The Wire)
Carmichael, Emily: (Jurassic World Dominion)
Cassavetes, John (1975 Q&A: A Woman Under the Influence)
Chazelle, Damien (Whiplash)
Coen, Joel & Ethan (True Grit)
Docter, Pete (Toy Story, Monsters Inc, Up)
Feig, Paul (The Black List Podcast)
Frank, Scott (Interview Magazine, January 2016)
Frank, Scott (The Thread / Minnesota Public Radio)
Frank, Scott (The Queen’s Gambit | Scriptnotes)
Garcia, Liz (The Lifeguard)
Garland, Alex (Never Let Me Go)
Gerwig, Greta (Lady Bird)
Gerwig, Greta (Little Women | Behind the Curtain)
Gilligan, Vince (Breaking Bad | Behind the Curtain)
Green, David Gordon (Prince Avalanche)
Heinzerling, Zachary (Cutie and the Boxer)
Heisserer, Eric (Lights Out)
Heisserer, Eric (Arrival | Behind the Curtain)
Hemingson, David (The Holdovers)
Holofcener, Nicole (Enough Said)
Hughes, John (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Home Alone)
Hughes, John (1985 AFI Interview)
Jenkins, Barry (3rd & Fairfax | WGA Podcast)
Johnson, Rian (The Last Jedi)
Johnson, Rian (Knives Out | Behind the Curtain)
Kaufman, Charlie (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Kelly, Richard (Donnie Darko)
Knight, Steven (BAFTA lecture)
Jack Kerouac interviewed by Ben Hecht
Kubrick, Stanley (1980 / 11 minutes / The Shining)
Kubrick, Stanley (November 27, 1965)
Lindelof, Damon (Austin Film Festival podcast | 2021)
Lonergan, Kenneth (BAFTA lecture)
Lowery, David (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints)
Lowery, David (A Ghost Story)
Lucas, George (Star Wars, American Graffiti)
Lynch, Brian (Minions)
Lynch, Brian (The Secret Life of Pets)
Marks, Justin (Broken Projector podcast)
Mazin, Craig (Chernobyl)
McCarten, Andrew (BAFTA)
McCarthy, Tom (Spotlight)
McQuarrie, Christopher (Austin Film Festival podcast | 2021)
Mulroney, Kieran & Michele (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows)
Mumolo, Annie (Bridesmaids)
Nagy, Phyllis (Carol)
Nolan, Christopher (Interstellar)
Nolan, Christopher (Memento | Behind the Curtain)
Norton, Edward (Motherless Brooklyn)
Rees, Dee (Mudbound)
Rees, Dee (2017 BAFTA)
Reitman, Jason (Up in the Air)
Russell, David O. (2015 BAFTA David Lean Lecture)
Rubin, Bruce Joel (Jacob’s Ladder, Ghost, My Life)
Schaeffer, Jack (WandaVision)
Schroeder, Allison (Hidden Figures)
Seidler, David (The King’s Speech)
Shyamalan, M. Night (The Howard Stern Show)
Shelton, Lynn (Touchy Feely)
Siara, Andy (Palm Springs)
Sorkin, Aaron (The Social Network)
Sorkin, Aaron (Molly’s Game)
Sorkin, Aaron (The Ringer |Bill Simmons)
Sorkin, Aaron (The Cultural Life | BBC Radio 4)
Stentz, Zack (X-Men: First Class, The Flash)
Tarantino, Quentin (Django Unchained)
Tarantino, Quentin (The Hateful Eight)
Tarantino, Quentin (Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood)
Tarantino, Quentin (Reel Blend | Two-Hour Conversation)
Tarantino, Quentin (The Moment with Brian Koppelman)
Towne, Robert (conversation with Franklin Leonard)
Thurber, Rawson Marshall (We’re the Millers)
Uhls, Jim (Fight Club)
Walker, Scott (The Frozen Ground)
Whedon, Joss (Making It With Rikki Lindhome)
Whedon, Joss (BAFTA)
Whedon, Joss (2015 with the Impossible Network)
Winter, Terence (Boardwalk Empire)