In the director's chair
Jason Solomons interviews film-makers on video, discussing their latest work, career to date and their visions
In the director's chair: Darren Aronofsky - video
The director of The Wrestler and Requiem for a Dream tells Jason Solomons about capturing the intensity of ballet for his new horror film, Black Swan, and why his film-making is inspired by Bruce Springsteen's one-legged dog
In the director's chair: Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle returns to our chair to tell Jason Solomons about his career post-Oscar, including 127 Hours, his work on a new theatre version of Frankenstein and the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games
In the Director's Chair: Michael Apted
Jason Solomons talks to the director of the new Chronicles of Narnia film about his journey into 3D cinema, making the Up documentary series and his own journey towards old age
Anton Corbijn: where The American meets Control
Director Anton Corbijn talks about the challenges of casting someone as well-known as George Clooney in his new thriller and about the progression from his Joy Division biopic
Mike Leigh: 'The future of cinema is rich and hopeful'
Mike Leigh talks to Jason Solomons about his take on ageing in his new film Another Year and why he's optimistic for young directors
Scott Pilgrim director Edgar Wright: 'It reminded me of Spaced'
Jason Solomons talks to the director of comic book adaptation Scott Pilgrim Vs The World about his journey from UK TV to US success and 'selling out' with cop comedy Hot Fuzz
Claire Denis on Isabelle Huppert: 'She doesn't want to be nice or compassionate'
Andrew Pulver talks to the director Claire Denis about her new film, White Material, starring Huppert and Christophe Lambert as a family trying to save their coffee plantation in Africa
Fred Wiseman: 'I'm trying to make dramatic structures out of ordinary experience'
Fred Wiseman, the veteran US documentary maker whose films have tackled everything from mental illness to retail, tells Jason Solomons about filming the Paris Opera Ballet. He also discusses how his aesthetic influenced Kubrick and Scorsese
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant on directing Cemetery Junction: 'This isn't grim, this is glorious'
The creators of The Office and Extras tell Jason Solomons how small town life influenced Cemetery Junction, how TV direction is underrated and why existential questions continue to colour their work
Actor David Morrissey on directing his first feature, Don't Worry About Me
The State of Play and Nowhere Boy actor tells Jason Solomons what made him set his offbeat romance in his changing home town Liverpool and how the city's arts scene played a role in the film
Richard Linklater on making Me and Orson Welles: 'He was the patron saint of indie film-makers'
The director of Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise and School of Rock tells Jason Solomons what drew him to the story of new film Me and Orson Welles, why his movies keep returning to the themes of youth and the future, and how he would love to do a musical
Ang Lee on Taking Woodstock: 'We had a camp to teach young actors how to be hippies'
The director of Brokeback Mountain and The Ice Storm tells Jason Solomons what the 1969 music festival meant to him as a teenager in Taiwan, about approaching movies with an outsider's eye and how sexual repression drives his work
Roland Emmerich on 2012: 'It's weltschmerz but it's fun'
The German director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow tells Jason Solomons how his new end-of-days tale 2012 grew out of the zeitgeist and why it's the small scenes in his blockbusters that interest him
Spike Lee: 'Anyone who thinks we move in a post-racial society is someone who's been smoking crack'
It has been 20 years since the release of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. The director tells Jason Solomons how his films - including She's Gotta Have It, Malcolm X and She Hate Me - have changed Hollywood, and how they haven't
Joe Wright: 'The Soloist is not a genre film'
The director of Atonement and Pride & Prejudice tells Jason Solomons why he couldn't make a film like The Maltese Falcon, how his work is influenced by Alan Clarke and Ken Loach, and discusses his upcoming British Raj film, Indian Summer
Nick Love: 'I'm more than just a mockney'
'Cockney auteur' Nick Love, director of Goodbye Charlie Bright, The Football Factory and The Firm, talks to Jason Solomons about football, fashion and funk
Nora Ephron: 'Most men don't want to direct movies that aren't about them'
The director of Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail shares the secrets of romantic comedy with Jason Solomons
John Landis: 'In the States I'm still quite the schmuck'
The director of Trading Places and The Blues Brothers talks to Jason Solomons about comedy, gaining an air of respectability with age and the making of his horror classic, An American Werewolf in London
Kathryn Bigelow: 'I'm drawn to provocative characters'
Jason Solomons quizzes Kathryn Bigelow, director of Point Break, Strange Days, K19: The Widowmaker and The Hurt Locker, out this Friday, on the two key themes of her career: men and the military
Michael Mann: 'I'm interested in extreme conflict'
The director of Heat, Collateral and the new, Johnny Depp-starring Public Enemies shares what drew him to the story of John Dillinger, and why he'd like to revisit the 18th-century setting of The Last of the Mohicans
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