Celebrity Interviews

[Scottie]

Who have you just been dying to sit down and interview with your personal array of demented questions? Any person will do, for my list reaches beyond the world of film and television, though it is tethered to that realm. I'm talking about people who you think would make for interesting conversation as well as response. They have to be living because a dead person isn't a great interview.  Here's my list:

Woody Allen
James Earl Jones
Dan Akroyd
Roger Corman
Ingmar Bergman
J.D. Salinger
Harry Shearer
Art Garfunkel
Jean-Luc Godard
David Lynch
Sadie Benning
Jackie Chan
Sammo Hung
Beck

Those are some knockout names. Of the dead I'd like to interview, Hitchcock, Winsor McCay (penman of the Little Nemo comic strip), Thomas Edison (if he's calm enough to approach), and Francois Truffaut.

Et tu board members? Who inspires you to the point of wanting to talk to them? Share with the world.

[Fearless Freep]

None

Some of the characters interest me but when I see celebrities interviewed most of them are really boring; they seem so trivial and shallow.

Some characters would be interesting, but not really many, if any, of the celbrities behind them

[raj]

I agree with Freep.  I really don't care what celebrities think about most issues.  Being a good (or not so good) actor/director/whatever does not give one special insight into political/social/whatever issues.  Unless it's in their area of expertise, such as how to direct a movie.

[Mr. Hockstatter]

I agree.  As soon as you find out what these people are like in real life, they get real uninteresting.  The illusion is completely blown.  It seems like half the time they're just basket cases.  The characters they play aren't even worth watching any more.

I wouldn't mind going out for some beers with Eddie Van Halen though.

[raj]

Apparently Eddie's battling cancer at the moment, and possibly it was booze that broke up him and Valerie Bertinelli -- now that is real stupid.
But yeah, he'd probably be fun for hanging out in a bar sometime.

[Neville]

I'd like to see good, in depth interviews to people like:

David Lynch

John Carpenter

Dario Argento

I don't care much about celebrities, but the movies of these people are so peculiar than any chance of trying to understand how they think and how they see the world would be interesting.

[Derf]

I don't know about "interviews," but I'd like to watch a few people at work, just to see their creative process. Among these people are:

Terry Gilliam
Danny Elfman
Sam Raimi

[odinn7]

Kate Beckinsale

Actually, I don't give a sh*t what she would have to say, I would just like to stare at her and drool.

[LH-C]

I hate interviewing (or even being an observer on interviews), but I think it would be interesting to interview Michael Wincott, as far as actors go.

[peter johnson]

Some celebs are shallow, others are quite deep and intellectual, with a vast amount of things to say on many topics --
I would love to be able to spend an evening with Ingmar Bergman or Dan Aykroyd from Scottie's original list, as they are multi-faceted individuals, with a broad range of interests in culture.
I would also love to converse with Wim Wenders.
I would like to meet David Lynch, but understand he's shy and unforthcoming & not all that much fun to talk to unless you've known him for years.
I have met a bunch of celebs, and have to say that conversing with Zero Mostel, Phil Proctor & David Ossman is/was a real treat, as again, these are widely-read individuals with broad interests who can converse wittily on a variety of topics.
Can't say the same for some . .
peter johnson/denny crane

[Neville]

Would you like to know how an interview with the great (and deranged) Klaus kinski was?

Check out this link, courtesy of Wikipedia (the link, not the interview itself):

http://www.walther-nienburg.de/Kinski/Post/katovsky.html

P.S: The best part of it is that actually kinski offered Werner Herzog to direct "Paganini", so the honesty of his comments about him are probably tainted by that fact.

[Scottie]

I recently went on a tirade of Klaus Kinski films including Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre, and a few of his Italian mob films like Ganster's Law. Look at his filmography and note how many movies he made some years, the 70's being most notable (he made 10 films in 1971 alone). He worked just as is described in that interview, for money and lots of it. I'd previously held the conviction that Klaus was as crazy as Herzog and that the two worked well together because their insanity bounced back and forth like echoes in a cavern. While that might be true, this interview has shed new light on my perception of him and has filled me with newfound respect for this marvel. I don't think I could keep up with a man like Kinski in an interview or in real life. I love learning about the lives of some of these people and how they made movies like they did. It's great.

[LH-C]

Neville, thanks for the link! As a huge Kinski fan, I'm definitely going to check it out.