Alfred Hitchcock defines his idea of happiness. #NailsIt [via CuriousBrain]
Interviews
From Coudal: “Werner Herzog talking about anything is great. Werner Herzog on Chickens is perhaps the best.” It really is.
Not too long ago, Fox News decided to epic trolling Muppet fans by suggesting Kermit and co. were actually a tool for teaching kids an “anti-capitalist,” liberal agenda. Stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Well, the Muppets were in England promoting their latest movie, when a reporter happened to ask Kermit and Miss Piggy about the incident. [...]
NBC’s Brian Williams travels to the Brooklyn apartment of Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp to interview the juggernaut that is Marcel the Shell (with shoes on). [via gotchamedia]
Former NYT’s director of design, Khoi Vinh, sits down with The Color Machine to discuss “the grid,” his influences and design. The part that got me was when he said he was more influenced by comic books than anything else. I kind of wanted to high-five him after that.
On the morning of Beavis and Butt-Head‘s glorious return to television (tonight, MTV @ 10pm), here are two Mike Judge related things for you. 1. He sat down with Vice Magazine for a lengthy interview spanning his entire career. When you submitted those first shorts to Liquid Television, did you ever think a cartoon about [...]
“George [Lucas] is in charge of breaking the stories. He’s done it on all four [Indiana Jones] movies. Whether I like the stories or not, George has broken all the stories. I sympathize with people who didn’t like the MacGuffin because I never liked the MacGuffin. George and I had big arguments about the MacGuffin. [...]
Sandra Bullock, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Woody Harrelson, Morgan Freeman, Christoph Waltz, Sam Worthington, Vera Farmiga, Tobey Maguire, Colin Firth, Zoe Saldana, and George Clooney all give their take on what they thing the best performance on screen of the last decade is. This must’ve been shot by the NYT Magazine [...]
1. Premiering on HBO this week is that Martin Scorsese documentary on George Harrison. Here is the trailer in case you missed it. Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese traces Harrison’s life from his musical beginnings in Liverpool though his life as a musician, a seeker, a philanthropist and a filmmaker, weaving together interviews with Harrison [...]
AICN has a roundup of several interviews Jon Favreau did with actor Harrison Ford, partly as a career retrospective and partly as a promotion for the upcoming Cowboys & Aliens. These interviews are easily the most engaged Ford has been since … I dunno, take your pick — The Fugitive? Part two, three, four, five, [...]
