Alex Ross Perry

Like at this time, he's just undeniable, like a totem of studio filmmaking where at this time, the script is everything.

I got to get a great script and a great star and there's nothing more to it than that.

It's a weird thing for Ethan Hawke to respect so much.

That is fascinating.

As this contraction happens, that he's not like... I guess my move is looking at dead poets, looking at even something like fear.

His move isn't like... You know, I've done that really well also.

I have made...

fairly small character dramas also.

That seems like a lane I'm in now, and it's not like, well, I've grown out of that.

Sure.

Even Truman Show is kind of that, even though it's a fairly large movie.

Yeah, they want, you know, Guantanamo.

That's like a cool prison for us now.

We don't want to see Russians in prison in 2006.

People wanted to see movies about... Peter, are you interested in imprisoning men from the Middle East or just Russians?

She's on the Gulag beat for the Atlantic, you're saying?

I'm not being flippant about it.

I think our joke is more that what she's doing sounds very serious, and I like the idea of someone talking about political oppression in Eastern Europe and you being like, so here's who has three Oscars and why.

But that also used to be allowed.

That also used to be forgivable for these filmmakers that prioritized authenticity, research, verisimilitude in their storytelling.