http://www.grouchoreviews.com/ Wed, 15 May 2013 16:21:23 GMT Film/DVD reviews, interviews and features. http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/372 /interviews/372 [Pegg:] Kirk is emotionally compromised from the start of this film. You know, he‘s driven by something other than sense. He‘s driven by vengeance. And Scotty really is absolutely right to stand up to him... Mon, 13 May 2013 23:42:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/371 /interviews/371 [Quaid:] It’s like a process of osmosis...I was thrown into the place, and I was just trying to soak in as much as I could from the farmers, from the feel of the place where we were at... Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:46:08 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/370 /interviews/370 [Wagner:] Blake...had it in his mind. But he used a lot of what happened and what the actors would bring to it...the thing with the hook on the door and me going around and all that…the sweater...all things that came up as we went along. Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:39:54 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/369 /interviews/369 None of us are doing peer-reviewed stuff on the things that we believe; we’re just sort of swallowing whatever gets published in Scientific American, or whatever, which is not a horrible thing, but...we obviously don‘t know everything. Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:15:59 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/368 /interviews/368 When I saw Gospel According to St. Matthew, I started getting heart palpitations...It was the best movie I had ever seen...I had to crawl up to the projection booth and call my girlfriend and have her take me to the hospital. Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:12:58 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/366 /interviews/366 My role, I think, as much as the book, is provide a platform so people can talk about the irrational. Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:07:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/364 /interviews/364 I‘ve never done heroin, but heroin addicts say it‘s always trying to chase the euphoria of that very first hit...For a filmmaker...that first movie is such a grand exhilarating adventure, and you‘re always just trying to replicate that. Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:33:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/362 /interviews/362 I feel, for any storyteller, anyone making any piece of art, the more specific you can be, and the more truthful detail you can imbue into what you‘re doing, the more universal your story becomes, oddly. Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:51:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/363 /interviews/363 That positive, enthusiastic outlook, combined with the topic of sex, seemed like a great thing to be able to play. Fri, 02 Nov 2012 07:16:10 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/365 /interviews/365 I stumbled across this article, ‘On Seeing a Sex Surrogate.‘ And...it was a bit like a ‘burning bush‘ experience; it had a profound emotional impact on me. And I thought: if I could reproduce that, in a film, then I would be making a good film. Fri, 02 Nov 2012 06:57:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/361 /interviews/361 I knew from an early point that if we were making a movie in these big fantastical worlds that it needed to be grounded by something that was existential and something that was very personal and internal to the character. Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:05:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/360 /interviews/360 [McDonagh:] You can never have too much Catholic guilt. Wed, 17 Oct 2012 01:40:54 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/359 /interviews/359 [Booth:] An idea that Ira tossed around a lot to me when I was working on this character was control...to find those places where you could be possessively loving of someone and do it because you care about them but also...to protect yourself. Sat, 15 Sep 2012 22:18:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/358 /interviews/358 [Fell:] I think this is probably the most ambitious stop-frame project. I mean, you know, it’s all hand-made. You don’t get anything for free. Everything is built. Every blade of grass is cut by hand by somebody and constructed... Tue, 14 Aug 2012 05:06:34 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/357 /interviews/357 [Jones:] You read a lot of screenplays, and you read some that are pretty damn good and then you read some that are not so good. And you wonder if anybody’s even heard it out loud. And I think you think, you know, ‘I can do this‘... Tue, 14 Aug 2012 04:23:26 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/356 /interviews/356 [Edgerton:] Being an onscreen parent is definitely a responsibility because kids, where I come from…it really can spin their life out of control... Tue, 14 Aug 2012 02:24:05 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/355 /interviews/355 [Chandrasekhar:] The props people came up with the just perfect melons, and photographed them in a way that, you know, you really want to go at ‘em a little bit. Fri, 03 Aug 2012 23:13:07 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/347 /interviews/347 I realized early on that all of us were capable of good and evil. That it’s within all of us. And that’s how I approach the stories I do. Sun, 29 Jul 2012 02:03:26 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/354 /interviews/354 The movie is, in a lot of ways, a product of just a very extensive investigation, of just kind of hanging around seeing what was going to happen. Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:31:53 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/367 /interviews/367 [Jaglom:] The best advice anybody gave a young filmmaker was delivered by Orson Welles. Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:50:00 GMT Peter Canavese