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MidnightFilmPod
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Been saying this for years
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I've been saying this for years.
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I named my fists Left and Right because sometimes I forget which is which
December 1, 2025 at 4:25 AM
For Ethan Hawke: “For most viewers, Jesse and Céline only exist in the films. For you, do their lives also include the rewrites, rehearsals, and long conversations you, Julie, and Rick went through—do those experiences feel like part of their story too?”
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
For Joel Edgerton: What does being in your character’s actual environment give you as a performer that you can’t access when you’re just running lines in rehearsal?
November 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Kenneth Lonergan

“You let grief sit in your films without sentimentalizing it. How do you direct actors toward that kind of restraint without losing emotional clarity?”
November 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
For Jordan Peele:
“You’ve talked a lot about subtext, but your films also rely heavily on rhythm. Do you think of scares the way a musician thinks about timing, or does the pacing come more intuitively once you see footage?”
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
For Celine Sciamma:

“You capture interiority through silence better than almost anyone. When you write, do you already know what those silent beats are, or do they reveal themselves once you’re working with the actors?”
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
For Denis Villeneuve:
“In your films there’s always this tension between the vast scale of the world and the emotional isolation of the characters. When you’re blocking scenes, what usually comes first — the emotional geography or the physical geography?”
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
2/2 Was that a choice made after reading the script or took time and refinement leading up to filming the scenes?
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
For Gabbie Hoffman: "Your role in The Mastermind is someone who's feelings about Josh O Connors James is seen in the way she carries herself. Her hunched shoulders and far away look tell us what we need to know. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM