Indiewire Influencers

There are bucket lists... and then there's Henry Rollins' bucket list. After rising to notoriety as the lead singer of Black Flag in the '80s, Rollins has built on his punk legacy to become one of America's most unique cultural filters. And to his ever-growing list of accomplishments, he can now add movie star. As the immortal antihero Jack in Jason Krawczyk's "He Never Died," Rollins' role allowed him to bring his rigorous work ethic to yet another creative endeavor. On this week's episode of Indiewire Influencers, Rollins speaks with Indiewire Editor in Chief Dana Harris about the mental training and the wide swath of life experiences necessary to maintain his kind of output.

Andrew Haigh loves relationships. Whether it's the bond between young lovers ("Weekend," HBO's "Looking") or longtime partners ("45 Years"), exploring Never those connections shape his work as a filmmaker. This week on Indiewire Influencers, Haigh talks with Indiewire Editor in Chief Dana Harris about his fascination with these interpersonal stories and the process that gets them on screen.

Drew Goddard was a science kid. Growing up in the tucked-away town of Los Alamos, NM, he was surrounded by the type of minds and personalities on display in "The Martian." Goddard adapted the script from Andy Weir's novel, a project that originally crossed his desk in its nascent e-book form. This week on Indiewire Influencers, Goddard talked with Indiewire Editor in Chief Dana Harris about the process of making a brainy crowd-pleaser.

Jason Segel, if nothing else, is a man of many influences. In this week's episode of Indiewire Influencers, he talks with Indiewire Editor in Chief Dana Harris about "Primal Fear," Roald Dahl books, Jimmy Stewart and Peter Sellers' performance in "Being There" - and that's just the beginning. In many ways, the culmination of those combined cultural experiences shapes his work as David Foster Wallace in James Ponsoldt's "The End of the Tour." In playing the late, beloved writer, Segel found a challenge that had been lingering on his periphery for a while.

For Kyle Patrick Alvarez, the route to a career as a director has been slightly less than orthodox. Now perhaps best known as the director of this year's "The Stanford Prison Experiment," Alvarez talks with Indiewire Editor in Chief Dana Harris about his early experiences and some of his 2016 plans.

Dana Harris speaks with "James White" writer/director Josh Mond and cast members Cynthia Nixon and Christopher Abbott about family and the points where their on-screen and off-screen lives overlap.

Dana Harris speaks with Frederick Wiseman at this year's Toronto International Film Festival about his new release 'In Jackson Heights' and the directorial philosophies that have sustained him through some mammoth feats of documentary filmmaking.

Laurie Anderson's "Heart of a Dog" isn't easy to describe. It's many things: a personal essay, a meditation on mortality, a tribute to lives past. But on this week's episode of Indiewire Influencers, Anderson talked with Indiewire Editor in Chief Dana Harris about how all those elements came together to make something both emblematic of her career and an entirely new endeavor.

As a producer, band member, and a writer of original scores for narrative and documentary features, composer Dan Romer is no stranger to writing music beloved by audiences and critics alike. At the Toronto International Film Festival last month, Romer spoke with Indiewire Editor in Chief Dana Harris for this week's episode of Indiewire Influencers.

On this week's episode of Indiewire Influencers, Jay talks about a couple of key directives: Never take a meeting, and, says Jay, "We have a direct, no-asshole policy."

The man who created the iconic trailers for the last two Best Picture winners sits down with Dana Harris to talk craft and collaborators.

This week's episode of Indiewire Influencers, recorded live from Austin, gets Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League and Director Nicolas Winding Refn's perspectives on the festival that helped draw them together.

"Time Out of Mind" was born from a simple question: "Is it possible to be found again?" Richard Gere's pursuit of the answer, with his director Oren Moverman, is just one of the ideas discussed on this week's episode of Indiewire Influencers.

Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Josh Waller's SpectreVision, is a production company devoted to the high-minded horror flick. Now that Wood's film career includes shepherding new talent into the fold, he says: "I've fallen in love with the process in its entirety."

As "Drunk History" enters its third season on Comedy Central tonight, Dana Harris sits down with creator Derek Waters to discuss a success he hadn't planned for when the show existed solely as a fledgling web series.

With his new series "Blunt Talk" debuting this Saturday on Starz, Ames shares how his past range of storytelling environments helped to equip him for a return to the showrunner's chair. All that, and a remembrance of the New York he once knew but has since disappeared, on this week's episode of Indiewire Influencers.

Jake Johnson and Alicia Van Couvering, producers of Joe Swanberg’s “Digging For Fire,” discuss the boundaries between making a movie where you don’t have to answer to anyone, and making a movie where you have to answer to everyone.

On this week’s episode of Indiewire Influencers, Baker shows us how he made "Tangerine” his biggest success, a journey that includes running from angry bus drivers, shooting on smartphones, and a producer who doubled as wardrobe and continuity.

On this episode of the Indiewire Influencers podcast, Harris sits down with documentarian Ondi Timoner as she explains how she works with "impossible visionaries" and gives us the backstory of the power struggles behind "Brand."

Rose McGowan discusses the Tweet that got her fired from her agency and shares tales from the front, including the difference between how women are treated in indie film versus Hollywood (the answer may surprise you).