I feel like my job as a storyteller and director …
– Lee Unkrich

Lee Unkrich

I feel like my job as a storyteller and director is to create an experience where the audience forgets they’re in a cinema and can get lost in the story. Things popping out of the screen call attention to the artifice of what you’re doing, so I use 3D as more of a window into […]

Language leads a double life – and so does the …
– Martin Amis

Martin Amis

Language leads a double life – and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form – as the stuff of patterned artifice.

In some ways, it’s easier to be the lead…
– Corey Stoll

Corey Stoll

In some ways, it’s easier to be the lead. Week after week, scene after scene, the rhythms of filming force you to peel away a certain amount of artifice. When you’re on set that much, there’s a license to let the character emerge from the work itself.