Category: Interviews (Page 5 of 5)

RottenTomatoes.com has an interview with Marjane Satrapi (director) on Persepolis with exclusive clips and photos.

Here’s one of the questions she was asked:

RottenTomatoes: Persepolis and Ratatouille are the favorites for being nominated and winning the Animation Oscar and it’s interesting that they’re both, in one way or another, connected to French culture. Have you seen Ratatouille?

Marjane: Yes, it’s a nice one. I really like it a lot. I watched it with two kids and they were so excited. I was more excited by their excitement.

I don’t know, if we could have the Oscar for Best Animation and Best Foreign, that’d be a record. Yes! Why not? I worked for it. [Laughs.] I’d be a liar if I said I don’t care. I do care. I hope. At the same time, this is just a competition. It’s surreal. If it doesn’t come, it doesn’t come. But I hope it will. [Laughs.]

For the entire interview, click here.

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.

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.

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.