Interviews

Peter Buchman Screenwriter of Che

This week Noah chats with Che screenwriter Peter Buchman about working with Soderbergh, researching Che Guevara, and his stalled Alexander the Great project. Listen to Noah Forrest Podcast with Peter Buchman

Read the full article »

Matteo Garrone Director of Gomorrah

This week Noah talks Matteo Garrone, director of Gomorrah, about Italian mafia, Italian cinema and the conventions of the American gangster movie. Listen to Noah Forrest Podcast with Matteo Garrone

Read the full article »

John Patrick Shanley

This week Noah chats with writer/director John Patrick Shanley about his new film Doubt, his last film Joe Versus the Volcano, working with Meryl Streep, and the wonder of Sabu. Listen to Noah Forrest Podcast with John Patrick Shanley

Read the full article »

J. Michael Straczynski Screenwriter of Changeling

This week Noah talks with Changeling screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski about screenwriting, Clint Eastwood, television vs. film and the genius of Rod Serling. Listen to Noah Forrest Podcast with J. Michael Straczynski

Read the full article »

David Wain Director of Role Models

This week Noah chats with David Wain, director of the new film Role Models. They talk about Lost in Translation, Paul Rudd’s career, Robert Altman, the demise of Stella, and the rise of Wainy Days. Listen to Noah Forrest Podcast with David Wain

Read the full article »

Kurt Kuenne Director of Dear Zachary

“I wish that I had never had the opportunity to make this film. I wish that my friend Dr. Andrew Bagby was alive and well and that I was blissfully ignorant of the lessons I’ve learned along this journey. .” – Kurt Kuenne Listen to Noah Forrest Podcast with Kurt Kuenne

Read the full article »

Noah Emmerich Star of Pride and Glory

“Your brother is in a bad hour here and the only way through this is you.” – Pride and Glory Listen to Noah Forrest Podcast with Noah Emmerich

Read the full article »

Penelope Cruz

“Beautiful women are invisible; we’re so dazzled by the outside that we never make it inside.” – Elegy Listen to Noah Forrest Podcast with Penelope Cruz

Read the full article » 2 Comments »

Stu VanAirsdale of Defamer

Listen to Noah Forrest Podcast with Stu VanAirsdale

Read the full article »

Rebecca Hall Star of Vicky Christina Barcelona

Listen to Noah Forrest Podcast with Rebecca Hall

Read the full article »

Aaron Rose Director of Beautiful Losers

“Then this one day I had this epiphany and I remember exactly the day, I mean not exactly the date, but it was a watershed moment for me that I remember when all of a sudden my vision cleared and I saw that the city I was walking around in was not the city I…

Read the full article »

Brad Anderson Director of Transsiberian

“It’s one of the last real remote train journeys lik that on the planet. When I took it back in 1988, that kind of became the inspiration for this movie. And what struck me most of all is that you are basically in one of the most remote places you can get to .. or…

Read the full article »

Interviews

Quote Unquotesee all »

It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon