Karyn Kusama Interview

09/27/22 • 50 min

Karyn Kusama, the director of films including Destroyer (starring Nicole Kidman and Sebastian Stan), Jennifer's Body (starring Amanda Seyfried and Megan Fox), and Girlfight (starring Michelle Rodriguez) and the director of the Emmy-nominated tv pilot to Yellowjackets, discusses her approach to directing : “Every director needs to get to know themselves and live by what they learn about themselves.”
00:07 - Introductions
01:54 - Pre-production
22:13 - Production
38:08 - Post-production
A video version of this interview can be found here:
https://youtu.be/8HK0n2pVMy8

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Sophie Hyde Interview

Sophie Hyde, the director of films including Good Luck to You, Leo Grande with Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack, Animals with Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat, and Berlinale award-winning 52 Tuesdays, discusses her approach to the directing craft. "You've got to let go of showing that you're a good director to be a good director."
Introductions: 00:07
Pre-production: 02:01
Production: 17:18
Post-production: 38:54
A link to the Youtube version of this interview can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nUBihEr-74

The Film Director's Craft - Karyn Kusama Interview

Transcript

Rachel Carey: This is The Film Director's Craft. I'm Rachel Carey. I'm a filmmaker but I also host this discussion with current filmmakers about the specifics of how they make their films. The purpose of this is to capture really hands-on techniques that people are using rather than focusing just on content or themes in their films, with the goal of kind of creating a record of how current filmmakers work and how that relates to the goals they have for their films. To