Archives for the 'Interviews' Category

Matt Groening discusses Simpsons game

Check out this interview of Matt Groening discussing the new Simpsons game along with the origin of Homer’s world famous “D’oh!”

11/23/2007 | Interviews, Videogames | No Comments

Tons of Ratatouille video interviews

The folks over at Collider were lucky enough to sit down with various people from Pixar including Brad Bird and John Lasseter who are out promoting the upcoming DVD/Blu-Ray release of Ratatouille.

Check out the interviews:
Brad Lewis - Producer
Michael Giacchino - Composer
Brian Dennehy (Voice of Djano) and Andrew Jiminez (Animator)
Brad Bird (Director) and John Lasseter (Executive Producer)

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10/31/2007 | DVD & Blu-Ray, Interviews | No Comments

Matt Groening on Late Night with Conan O’Brien

Here’s another interview of Matt Groening, this time conducted by Conan O’Brien of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, which airs Monday through Friday at 11:35 PM EST on NBC. This interview was conducted to promote the upcoming July 27th release of The Simpsons Movie.

07/22/2007 | Films, Interviews | No Comments

Matt Groening on The Daily Show

Here is an interview of Matt Groening conducted by Jon Stewart of The Daily Show, which airs Monday through Thursday at 11PM EST on Comedy Central. This interview was conducted to promote the upcoming July 27th release of The Simpsons Movie.

07/22/2007 | Films, Interviews | No Comments

Interview with Brad Bird

The folks over at ComingSoon have published a very informative interview with Ratatouille director Brad Bird. Here’s a sample question:

ComingSoon.net: You weren’t involved with this project from the beginning. When did you come on board?

Brad Bird: It started with Jan Pinkava who won the Oscar for a short called “Geri’s Game” and he was working on it when I first came up to Pixar in 2000 to do “The Incredibles” and was developing it through the whole time I was making “The Incredibles.” As part of Pixar’s sort of story group, we look at each other’s work during the times that films are being developed to give each other fresh eyes. So I was aware of the film and participated in the development of the film from that sort of perspective the whole time it was being made. But, a little over a year and a half ago, everyone loved the film, they loved the idea of the film, they loved the world and the collection of character types. But, the story was not coming together the way they wanted it to.

To read the full interview, which I highly recommend, head on over to ComingSoon.

06/26/2007 | Films, Interviews | No Comments

Interview with The Simpsons’ Carolyn Omine

AWN has a very good interview with ‘Simpsons’ writer Carolyn Omine. It’s definitely worth reading. Here’s one of the many questions she answers:

So, if I am interested in being a writer for animation, what steps would I take?

Carolyn: Get people to read them. Keep improving them. I’m often given scripts to read and I don’t have a lot of times to read scripts by new writers (I can barely keep up with all the reading I have to do for my job), but when I have read someone’s script and I give notes — I am shocked at how often that is met with such resistance.

Check out the interview here.

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05/22/2007 | Interviews, TV | No Comments