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Written interviews with screenwriters and TV writers.
“The Wire”: An Oral History With Its Makers and Stars
2018 THR Roundtable: Sam Akil, Jason Blum, Simon Kinberg, Robert Kirkman, Shawn Levy, Jonathan Nolan, Melissa Rosenberg.
Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan (Chappaquiddick)
Michael Arndt, J.J. Abrams, and Lawrence Kasdan (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker (Top Secret!)
Steven Baigelman and Don Cheadle (Miles Ahead)
Robert Baird and Paul Briggs (Big Hero 6)
Kenya Barris and Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip)
Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (65)
Lindsey Beer, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, and Amanda Silver
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (“Game of Thrones”)
Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”)
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (It’s Kind of a Funny Story)
Leigh Brackett and Edmund Hamilton
John Brancato and Michael Ferris
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (Hail, Caesar!)
Ryan Coogler and Ava DuVernay (Fruitvale Station)
Lucinda Coxon, Nick Hornby, and Abi Morgan (Brooklyn, The Danish Girl and Suffragette)
Karen Croner and Jean Hanff Korelizt (Admission)
Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof (“Lost”)
Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan (Wildlife)
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (The Favourites)
Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon)
Ian Deitchman and Kristin Rusk (Life As We Know It)
Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera (Inside Out)
Pete Docter, Kemp Powers, and Dana Murray (Soul)
Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner (“Girls”)
Julius Epstein and Howard Koch (Casablanca)
Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood)
Gillian Flynn and Cheryl Strayed (Gone Girl, Wild)
Dan Fogelman and David E. Kelley (This Is Us / Big Little Lies)
Max Frye and Dan Futterman (Foxcatcher)
Vince Gilligan, David Milch and Matthew Weiner
Vince Gilligan, Sam Catlin, Peter Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, George Mastras, Thomas Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett (Breaking Bad)
Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice)
Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley (Spider-Man: Homecoming)
Liz Hannah and Josh Singer (The Post)
Dan Harmon (“Community”) and Steve Levitan (“Modern Family”)
Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi, and Karyn Kusama (Destroyer)
Chad Hayes and Carey Hayes (The Conjuring)
Nick Hornby and David Simon (“The Wire”)
Byron Howard and Rich Moore (Zootopia)
Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg (Harold & Kumar)
Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)
Craig Johnson, Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig (The Skeleton Twins)
Phil Johnston and Rich Moore (Ralph Breaks the Internet)
Bong Joon Ho and Kelly Reichardt
Rajiv Joseph and Scott Rothman (Draft Day)
Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan (‘Westworld’)
Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan (‘Westworld’)
Charlie Kaufman and Ian Reid (I’m Thinking of Ending Things)
Alex Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick (War Room)
Amy Koppelman and Paige Dylan (I Smile Back)
David Koepp, Brian Koppelman, Jeff Nathanson, and Andrew Walker
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci
Karyn Kusama and Phil Hay (The Invitation)
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Swiss Army Man)
Spike Lee and Jordan Peele (BlacKkKlansman)
Richard Linklater and Darryl Ponicsan (Last Flag Flying)
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie)
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (22 Jump Street)
Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)
Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (A Bad Mom’s Christmas)
Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (Captain America)
Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (Captain America: The Winter Soldier)
Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (Captain America: Civil War)
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (The Big Short)
Errol Morris interviews Stephen King (“11/22/63”)
Kiel Murray, Bob Peterson, and Mike Rich (Cars 3)
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (The Disaster Artist)
Jonathan Nolan and David Goyer
Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Zombieland)
Seth Reiss and Will Tracy (The Menu)
Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt (Olympus Has Fallen)
Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller (The Muppets)
Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson (Bill and Ted Face the Music)
Riley Stearns and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Faults)
Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese (Deadpool)
Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (AFI Conversation)
Edgar Wright and Walter Hill (The Driver)
Edgar Wright with Steven Spielberg (Duel)
Abrams, J.J. (Playboy, April 2013)
Allain, Suzanne (Black List blog)
Allain, Suzanne (Mr. Malcolm’s List)
Allen, Woody (on Ingmar Bergman)
Alvarez, Fede (Don’t Breathe)
Ames, Jonathan (Blunt Talk)
Anderson, Paul Thomas (The Master)
Anderson, Paul Thomas (Inherent Vice)
Anderson, Paul Thomas (Inherent Vice)
Anderson, Paul Thomas (Licorice Pizza)
Anderson, Wes (Moonrise Kingdom)
Anderson, Wes (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Anderson, Wes (Asteroid City)
Andrews, Jess (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl)
Apatow, Judd (Bridesmaids)
Apatow, Judd (Vulture | August 12, 2017)
Ayer, David (Suicide Squad)
Ayoade, Richard (The Double)
Baig, Minhal (Hala)
Baker, Sean (Tangerine)
Baker, Sean (Tangerine)
Baker, Sean (The Florida Project)
Baker, Sean (The Florida Project)
Baumbach, Noah (While We’re Young)
Beall, Will (Gangster Squad)
Beacham, Travis (Pacific Rim)
Beauchamp, Cari (On Anita Loos)
Berg, Amy (“Caper”)
Berg, Peter (Lone Survivor)
Birbiglia, Mike (Sleepwallk With Me)
Birbiglia, Mike (Don’t Think Twice)
Birbiglia, Mike (Don’t Think Twice)
Bird, Brad (Tomorrowland)
Bird, Brad (The Incredibles 2)
Bissell, Tom (“Gears of War: Judgment”)
Black, Shane (Iron Man 3)
Blomkamp, Neill (Elysium)
Bomback, Mark (War for the Planet of the Apes)
Borenstein, Max (Godzilla)
Borenstein, Max (Kong: Skull Island)
Borenstein, Max (Godzilla vs. Kong)
Borgli, Kristoffer (Dream Scenario)
Boyle, Danny (127 Hours)
Boyle, T.C. (Paris Review, 2000)
Bradbury, Ray (Paris Review, 2010)
Brooks, James L. (Broadcast News)
Brooks, James L. (THR 2017)
Burch, Samy (May December)
Butterworth, Jez and John-Henry (Fair Game)
Cagan, Josh (The DUFF)
Cahill, Mike (I Origins)
Cameron, James (Alita: Battle Angel)
Carey, Maggie (The To Do List)
Carlock, Robert (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
Carney, John (Flora and Son)
Carpenter, Bridget (“11.22.63”)
Carter, Chris (The X-Files)
Catton, Eleanor (Emma)
Chandler, Raymond (Atlantic Monthly 1945)
Carruth, Shane (Upstream Color)
Chandor, J.C. (All Is Lost)
Charman, Matt (Bridge of Spies)
Charman, Matt (Bridge of Spies)
Chazelle, Damien (La La Land)
Cherry, Matthew A. (Young Love)
Chukwu, Chinonye (Clemency)
Cianfrance, Derek (The Place Beyond the Pines)
Coen, Joel and Ethan (True Grit)
Coen, Joel and Ethan (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Coen, Joel and Ethan (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Coogan, Steve (Philomena)
Coogler, Ryan (Fruitvale Station)
Conrad, Steve (Unfinished Business)
Coogler, Ryan (Fruitvale Station)
Coogler, Ryan (Creed)
Cooper, Scott (Crazy Heart)
Coppola, Sofia (The Beguiled)
Craig, Kelly Fremon (Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.)
Cretton, Destin Daniel (Just Mercy)
Cuarón, Alfonso (Roma)
Curtis, Richard (Yesterday)
Dauberman, Gary (It)
Dauberman, Gary (The Nun)
Daugherty, Evan (Snow White and the Huntsman)
Davies, Luke (Lion)
DeRosa, Bob (Killers)
Derrickson, Scott (Doctor Strange)
Derrickson, Scott (Doctor Strange)
Devlin, Lindsay (Devil’s Due)
Dippold, Katie (Ghostbusters)
Dobbs, Lem (Haywire)
Donoghue, Emma (Room)
Donoghue, Emma (Room)
Duffield, Brian (Spontaneous)
Duffield, Brian (No One Can Save You)
Dunham, Lena [Playboy]
Dunham, Lena [WGA]
Dunnet-Alcocer, Gareth (Blue Beetle)
Durkin, Sean (Martha Marcy May Marlene)
Eggers, Robert (The Lighthouse)
Feig, Paul (Spy)
Feig, Paul (Ghostbusters)
Finn, Parker (Smile)
Fletcher, Geoffrey (Precious)
Flynn, Gillian (Gone Girl)
Fogelman, Dan (This Is Us)
Frank, Scott (A Walk Among the Tombstones)
Fuchs, Jason (Ice Age 4)
Garcia, Liz W. (The Lifeguard)
Garcia, Liz. W. (One Percent More Humid)
Garland, Alex (Ex Machina)
Gerwig, Greta (Mistress America)
Gerwig, Greta (Lady Bird)
Gerwig, Greta (Little Women)
Gilligan, Vince (Breaking Bad)
Gilroy, Dan (Nightcrawler)
Gilroy, Tony (The Bourne Legacy)
Gilroy, Tony (Beirut)
Gilroy, Tony (Andor)
Glazer, Jonathan (The Zone of Interest)
Goddard, Drew (The Cabin in the Woods)
Goddard, Drew (The Cabin in the Woods)
Goddard, Drew (The Martian)
Goddard, Drew (The Martian)
Goddard, Drew (The Martian)
Goldberg, Evan (This is the End)
Gordon, Howard (“24”)
Goyer, David (Man of Steel)
Goyer, David: (Man of Steel)
Goyer, David (The Hollywood Reporter | July 22, 2021)
Granik, Debra (Winter’s Bone)
Gray, James (The Lost City of Z)
Green, Michael (Blade Runner 2049)
Greene, Graham (Paris Review, 1953)
Gunn, James (Super)
Guzikowski, Aaron (Prisoners)
Haapasalo, Alli (Girl Picture)
Haneke, Michael (Paris Review, 2014)
Hare, David (BAFTA with link to video)
Hart, Julia (The Keeping Room)
Hart, Julia (Miss Stevens)
Hawley, Noah (‘Fargo’)
Hayes, Chad and Hayes, Carey (The Conjuring)
Heder, Sian (CODA)
Heisserer, Eric (Lights Out)
Heisserer, Eric (Bird Box)
Helgeland, Brian (42)
Henry, Buck (The Graduate)
Heslov, Grant (Ides of March)
Hill, Walter (The Assignment)
Hodson, Christina (Bumblebee)
Hornby, Nick (Wild)
Hornby, Nick (Brooklyn)
Hutchison, Gennifer (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul)
Ivory, James (Call Me By Your Name)
Jalali, Babak (Fremont)
Jaswinski, Anthony (The Shallows)
Jefferson, Cord (American Fiction)
Jendresen, Erik (Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part 1)
Johnson, David Leslie (Red Riding Hood)
Johnson, Rian (Looper)
Johnson, Rian (Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Last Jedi)
Johnson, Rian (Knives Out)
Johnson, Rian (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
Johnson, Rian (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
Johnson, Rian (Poker Face)
Jonze, Spike (Her)
Joy, Lisa (Westworld)
Kalogridis, Laeta (Shutter Island)
Kaufman, Charlie (2016 | Criterion)
Kaufman, Charlie (2018 | The Talks)
Kazan, Zoe (Ruby Sparks)
Kelly, Richard (Donnie Darko, Southland Tales)
Kent, Jennifer (The Babadook)
Kinberg, Simon (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
King, Stephen (Rolling Stone, October 2014)
King, Stephen (Los Angeles Review of Books, October 2015)
Kirkman, Robert (The Walking Dead)
Knight, Steven (Locke)
Knight, Steven (The Hundred-Foot Journey)
Kolstad, Derek (John Wick)
Kruger, Ehren (Transfomers)
Kubrick, Stanley (Playboy, 1968)
Kubrick, Stanley (Rolling Stone, 1987)
Kushner, Tony (Lincoln)
Kushner, Tony (West Side Story)
Kushner, Tony (The Fabelmans)
Lanthimos, Yorgos (The Killing of a Sacred Deer)
Lapine, James (Into the Woods)
Lee, Jennifer (Frozen)
Lehane, Dennis (The Drop)
Levin, Thunder (Sharknado)
Lieberman, Matt (Free Guy)
Lindelof, Damon (The Leftovers)
Linklater, Richard (Boyhood)
Lisberger, Steve (Tron)
Lobdell, Scott (Happy Death Day)
Lochhead, Seth (Hanna)
Lochhead, Seth (Hanna)
Logan, John (Alien: Covenant)
Lonergan, Kenneth (Manchester by the Sea)
Lowery, David (A Ghost Story)
Lundin, Britta (Black List)
Lynch, Brian (Minions)
Magee, David (Life of Pi)
Mangold, James (Logan)
Mangold, James (Cinephilia & Beyond)
Mann, Michael (Heat)
Margulies, Donald (The End of the Tour)
Martin, George R.R. (“Game of Thrones”)
Mastai, Elan (What If aka The F Word)
Maysh, Jeff (long-form narrative non-fiction crime writer)
Mazin, Craig (The Last of Us)
McCarten, Anthony (Bohemian Rhapsody)
McCarthy, Tom (Win Win)
McCarthy, Tom (Million Dollar Arm)
McCarthy, Tom (Spotlight)
McKay, Adam (Vice)
McKenna, Aline Brosh (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
McDonagh, John Michael (War on Everyone)
McDonagh, Martin (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
McLaughlin, John (Hitchcock)
McNamara, Tony (Poor Things)
Melfi, Theodore (St. Vincent)
Meriwether, Elizabeth (“New Girl”)
Meyers, Nancy (The Intern)
Milch, Olivia (Ocean’s 8)
Mills, Mike (20th Century Woman)
Monahan, William (Mojave)
Moore, Graham (The Imitation Game)
Morgan, Peter (Rush)
Morris, Tess (Man Up)
Nelson, Bob (Nebraska)
Neumeier, Ed (RoboCop)
Nichols, Jeff (Take Shelter)
Nichols, Jeff (Midnight Special)
Nolan, Christopher [interviewed by Jonathan Nolan]
Nolan, Christopher (Inception)
Nolan, Christopher (Dunkirk)
Nolan, Christopher (Oppenheimer)
Nolan, Jonathan (Interstellar)
Noxon, Marti (Sharp Objects)
Oppenheim, Noah (Jackie)
Orley, Jason (Big Time Adolescence)
Pallaoro, Andrea (Monica)
Parmet, Laurel (The Starling Girl)
Paskowitz, Salvador (The Age of Adaline)
Patton, Sam (Desolation)
Payne, Alexander (The Descendants)
Peele, Jordan (Get Out)
Peele, Jordan (Us)
Peli, Oren (Paranormal Activity)
Phillips, Todd (War Dogs)
Price, Richard (Paris Review)
Raiff, Cooper (Cha Cha Real Smooth)
Randolph, Charles (The Big Short)
Raue, James (Psychoanalysis)
Ray, Billy (Captain Phillips)
Ray, Billy (‘The Last Tycoon’)
Rees, Dee (Mudbound)
Reeves, Matt (War for the Planet of the Apes)
Reiser, Will (50/50)
Riley, Boots (Sorry to Bother You)
Ripley, Ben (Source Code)
Robertson-Dworet, Geneva (Tomb Raider)
Robinson, Angela (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women)
Rock, Chris (Top Five)
Rosenberg, Scott (Venom)
Ross, Gary (The Hunger Games)
Ross, Gary (The Hunger Games)
Ross, Gary (Free State of Jones)
Roth, Eric (Killers of the Flower Moon)
Russell, David O. (Silver Linings Playbook)
Saenz, Bob (Help for the Holidays)
Schaeffer, Jac (WandaVision)
Schrader, Paul (First Reformed)
Schrader, Paul (First Reformed)
Schrader, Paul (First Reformed)
Schroeder, Allison (Hidden Figures)
Schulman, Tom (Dead Poets Society)
Schut, Bragi F. (The Last Voyage of the Demeter)
Semple Jr., Lorenzo (1983 interview)
Shyamalan, M. Night (Split)
Sheridan, Taylor (Hell or High Water)
Silberman, Katie (Set It Up)
Simon, David (Vulture, Dec 2105)
Simon, David (Treme)
Singer, Eric (American Hustle)
Sipe, Bryan (Demolition)
Smith, Kirsten “Kiwi” (Advice To Writers)
Soderbergh, Steven (Haywire)
Soderbergh, Steven (Logan Lucky)
Soderbergh, Steven (Vulture)
Solondz, Todd (Dark Horse)
Somerville, Patrick (The Leftovers)
Song, Celine (Past Lives)
Sorkin, Aaron (Steve Jobs)
Sorkin, Aaron (March 2016 | Hollywood Reporter)
Southern, Terry (Paris Review)
Stephens, Martha (Land Ho!)
Stiepleman, Daniel (On the Basis of Sex)
Stillman, Whit (Damsels in Distress)
Stillman, Whit (Love & Friendship)
Stoller, Nicholas (The Muppets)
Strong, Danny: (Game Change)
Swanberg, Joe (Win It All)
Tanne, Richard (Southside With You)
Tatchell, Terri (Chappie)
Terrio, Chris (Argo)
Terrio, Chris (Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker)
Theroux, Justin (Iron Man 2)
Thomas, Rob (Veronica Mars)
Towne, Robert (Chinatown)
Towne, Robert (2000 — Creative Screenwriting)
Unkrich, Lee (Coco)
Vardalos, Nia (My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2)
Vaughn, Matthew (Kick-Ass)
Vonnegut, Kurt (1973 Playboy)
Wagner, Bruce (Map to the Stars)
Waithe, Lena (Queen & Slim)
Walker, Andrew Kevin (Se7en)
Walker, Andrew Kevin (The Talks)
Wan, James (Insidious)
Wang, Lulu (The Farewell)
Warden, Jimmy (Cocaine Bear)
Warden, Jimmy (Cocaine Bear | Vulture)
Waters, Daniel (Heathers)
Weiner, Matthew (Paris Review, Spring 2014)
Whannell, Leigh (Upgrade)
Whannell, Leigh (The Invisible Man)
Wheatley, Ben (Free Fire)
Whedon, Joss (The Cabin in the Woods)
Whedon, Joss (Much Ado About Nothing)
Whedon, Joss (Speed)
Whitta, Gary (Jan. 2016)
Wilder, Billy (1963/Playboy)
Wilder, Billy (Paris Review, Spring 1996)
Willomon, Beau (“House of Cards”)
Wilson, Erin Cressida (The Girl on the Train)
Wilson-Cairns, Krysty (1917)
Winslow, Don (Savages)
Winslow, Don (The Cartel)
Winter, Terence (Broadway Empire)
Woolverton, Linda (Maleficent)
Workman, Angela (The Zookeeper’s Wife)
Wright, Edgar (Baby Driver)
Zaillian, Steve (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
Zeitlin, Benh (Beasts of the Southern Wild)