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Tenaglia and Collins talk about their 19 year collaboration with Bourdain, how he found his voice, the show evolved, and avoided the traps of cookie-cutter TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Headland talks about the fear of how to end the show and the misogynist side of the auteur theory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The husband-wife duo dig into S2 of their Emmy winning show to explore how they've translated their trademark dialogue into cinematic visuals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The director behind “Battle of the Bastards” and “Hardhome” takes us inside the creation of some the series’ biggest moments. Sapochnik also brings us inside the show’s final season, including the arduous 55-night shoot of “The Longest Night,” and how he filmed the destruction of King’s Landing, in the penultimate episode “The Bells,” through the lens of questioning his own role in creating the sh...

How Esmail scored his thriller with old film scores, adapting the popular podcast, and how both writing & directing "Mr. Robot" is unsustainable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hader returns to the podcast to talk about having the confidence to find his voice as a director in S2, breaking down "Ronny/Lily" and the season finale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stahelski breaks down how he pulled off the big John Wick 3 action scenes and explains why Keanu's character will never walk off into the sunset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How did Terry Gilliam finally make the most cursed production in movie history? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How "Roma" is the extension of the ideas and filmmaking Cuarón explored in "Children of Men" and "Y Tu Mamá También." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Oscar nominee talks about how his incredible skateboarding movie became a story of domestic abuse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Har'el on taking Shia Labeouf's pain and therapy and turning it into a hit Sundance film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aster talks about how a story of grief, that was too dark and bleak to ever get made as a drama, became a hit horror film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kusmana on the using real guns, creating an unusual villain and pulling Nicole Kidman back from going almost too far in her incredible transformation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Oscar winning director behind "Ida" talks about his extraordinary new film "Cold War." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Black love is a radical act," calling on Jenkins to create to take a bold and different approach to creating Beale Street's visual language. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ramsay talks about coming back from the trauma of having been fired from a film she had already made in her head, to make one of the best films of the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Boots Riley learned from two decades of creating music that made making his first film such a success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josephine gets inside her unique multi-year process of creating the dreamy, meta world of "Madeline's Madeline," and how it relates to her new film "Shirley." PHOTO: AP/REX/Shutterstock Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The LA Critics Best Director winner talks about her long process and deep research of making her "social realist" films and the next films she's making. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Spike on keeping Oscar season in perspective, film school today, and how the success of "BlacKkKlansman" has led people to reconsider his 40 years of filmmaking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The "Dogtooth" and "Lobster" director talks about his unusual rehearsal process and what drew him to make a period lesbian triangle drama about Queen Anne with screenwriter Tony McNamara. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The “12 Years a Slave” director talks about why he never shot lists, the film’s incredible opening sequence, his longtime collaboration with DP Sean Bobbitt, why Chicago is the best city to set a story, and how he identified with the widows in the original BBC series as a 13 year old black kid growing up in London. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The "Diary of a Teenage Girl" director on why striving for clarity in films can be a bad thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

RaMell Ross refused to accepted the limitations of documentaries and black representational space in cinema, so he created something new. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The "Call Me By Your Name" director talks about how Thom Yorke changed his view of film scores, being inspired by the films and youth culture of Berlin 1977, his feminism, and tackling Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks." PHOTO: Andrea Raffin/Shutterstock Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices