Conversations with Filmmakers Series
The Conversations with Filmmakers Series is part of the University Press of Mississippi which is sponsored by Mississippi's eight state universities. The mission of the Series is to publish collected interviews with world-famous directors. The current Filmmakers Series editor is Gerald Peary, a noted film critic and Professor of Communications and Journalism at Suffolk University, Boston. Peary was appointed to this position following the death of the Series' original general editor, Dr. Peter Brunette. Background The series was launched in 1998 with Gerald Peary's Quentin Tarantino: Interviews. It was favorably reviewed by MovieMaker magazine which found a balance and depth throughout saying, "Contemporary giants like Soderbergh, Oliver Stone and John Sayles are treated with just as much esteem as legends like Wilder and John Huston." Interviewees J.J. Abrams Robert Aldrich Woody Allen Pedro Almodóvar Robert Altman Theo Angelopoulos Michelangelo Antonioni Dorothy Arzner Hal Ashby Ingmar Bergman Bernardo Bertolucci Peter Bogdanovich Kathryn Bigelow Danny Boyle Stan Brakhage Charles Burnett Tim Burton James Cameron Jane Campion Frank Capra John Cassavetes Claude Chabrol Charlie Chaplin The Coen Brothers Francis Ford Coppola Sofia Coppola Roger Corman Wes Craven David Cronenberg George Cukor Jonathan Demme Clint Eastwood Blake Edwards Atom Egoyan Asghar Farhadi Federico Fellini David Fincher John Ford William Friedkin Su Friedrich Samuel Fuller Terry Gilliam Jean-Luc Godard Stuart Gordon Peter Greenaway D.W. Griffith Michael Haneke Howard Hawks Todd Haynes Werner Herzog Alfred Hitchcock Dennis Hopper John Huston Jim Jarmusch Neil Jordan Wong Kar-wai Elia Kazan Buster Keaton Krzysztof Kieślowski Barbara Kopple Harmony Korine Stanley Kubrick Akira Kurosawa Fritz Lang David Lean Ang Lee Spike Lee Mike Leigh Kasi Lemmons George Lucas Baz Luhrmann Sidney Lumet David Lynch Guy Maddin Louis Malle Joseph L. Mankiewicz Albert and David Maysles Jonas Mekas Merchant-Ivory Anthony Minghella Errol Morris Nichols and May Brian De Palma Jafar Panahi Alexander Payne Sam Peckinpah Arthur Penn Christian Petzold Roman Polanski Abraham Polonsky Michael Powell Otto Preminger Satyajit Ray Jean Renoir Alain Resnais Martin Ritt Robert Rodriguez Eric Rohmer George A. Romero David O. Russell Carlos Saura John Sayles Fred Schepisi Martin Scorsese Ridley Scott Ousmane Sembène John Singleton Steven Soderbergh Steven Spielberg George Stevens Oliver Stone Quentin Tarantino Andrei Tarkovsky François Truffaut Liv Ullmann Agnes Varda Paul Verhoeven Lars von Trier Margarethe von Trotta John Waters Lois Weber Peter Weir Orson Welles Billy Wilder Michael Winterbottom John Woo William Wyler Zhang Yimou Fred Zinnemann References External links University Press of Mississippi Mississippi State University Mississippi, University Press of Publications established in 1998