James Gray talks about learning to take pleasure in the filmmaking process and why premiering his new film The Lost City of Z at the 54th New York Film Festival feels like a homecoming.

Dash Shaw talks about his transition from comic book artist to filmmaker in this interview from the 54th New York Film Festival.

Paul Verhoeven reflects on the 2016 Presidential Election and explains why he finds the term “provocation” misleading as applied to his work in this interview from the 54th New York Film Festival.

Steve James talks about the power of film to illuminate human lives and balancing his own point of view with the needs of the story being told in this interview from the 54th New York Film Festival.

The legendary documentarian talks about his desire to bring the work of photographer Elsa Dorfman to a wider audience in this interview from the 54th New York Film Festival.

The director of ‘Hermia and Helena’ talks about his sensual relationship with framing and filmmaking as a form of creative gathering in this interview from the 54th New York Film Festival.

The director of A Quiet Passion talks about the wonder he felt watching films as a child and his struggle to suspend his disbelief now that he knows how the soup is made.

The director of Aquarius talks about how cinema creates a map of the world and recalls his first experience in a movie theater in this interview from NYFF.

The Moonlight director talks about his early struggles in film school and the movies he discovered while there that went on to influence his work.

The director of I Am Not Your Negro talks about his filmmaking toolbox, working in fiction vs. nonfiction, and his preference for open endings.

The Toni Erdmann director talks about her earliest experiments with filmmaking and takes a moment to appreciate the new issue of Film Comment magazine.

The French filmmaker talks about switching between the roles of director and cinephile and his cinematic love letter, My Journey Through French Cinema.