The Year in Interviews

This year we interviewed just under 300 people. From die hard New Yorkers to those just passing through our fair city, here are some our faves. And if you really wanna get reflective, here's our best of interview post from 2007.

Charlie Kaufman, the screenwriter behind films such as Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, spoke with us about his directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York.

As an audience member, I longed for some sort of direct encounter between Caden and Adele (Catherine Keener) toward the end to give me emotional resolution. I really wanted them to have some kind of interaction and I’m wondering why you resisted that. You answered the question yourself. It’s because you wanted it. This is a very subjective movie. It’s completely designed from the point of view of Caden Cotard. Everything that happens in the external world you’re seeing through his eyes and he doesn’t have that resolution. So there was actually a lot of movement within some of the people involved in the movie to shoot scenes with Catherine at the end to give people what they wanted. But you’re with Caden. And Caden doesn’t have that. And that would have been a cheat.

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