Interviews
Hard-hitting interviews conducted by the ever-vigilant CinemaNerdz film devotees.
Interview with David Chase, writer/director/producer of Not Fade Away
With all of David Chase’s monstrous success from creating, producing, and writing the disturbingly popular show The Sopranos, I expected to meet someone larger than life. With his first feature film, Not Fade Away, which he also wrote, produced, and directed being released across the nationwide, I am ready for David Chase to jump out of his skin at any given second. Instead, I find a quiet humble ...[Read More]
Interview with Sacha Gervasi, director of Hitchcock
Sacha Gervasi (pronounced Jur-VAH-zee), the director of the documentary Anvil: The Story of Anvil, made his feature film directing debut this year with the film Hitchcock. He’s also made a name for himself as a successful screenwriter, penning such entries as the Steven Spielberg-helmed film The Terminal. Based on the Stephen Rebello book, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, Gervasi’s new f...[Read More]
Interview with Josh Peck, star of Red Dawn
Back in 2008, actor Josh Peck established himself as a talent to take notice of with his star turn alongside Sir Ben Kingsley in The Wackness, in which he played a troubled young man who sells pot from an ice cream pushcart. This year, he’s back in the action film Red Dawn – a remake of the much-adored film from 1984 about a fictional Russian invasion and occupation of the United States and the sm...[Read More]
Interview with RZA, writer/director/star of The Man with the Iron Fists
“I said to [Quentin] Tarantino, I want to do what you do.” That is what the acclaimed music producer and leader of the Wu-Tang Clan turned director RZA said when asked how his new project movie The Man with the Iron Fists came to be. RZA (aka, Robert Diggs) studied Tarantino for two years on set to learn from the man he affectionately refers to as the “Godfather” of the sam...[Read More]