Interview Adventures
In my travels, I've had the privilege of interviewing many writers, musicians, directors, actors, and screenwriters. Here is a selection of those.
And, beyond these highlights, I’m including a list of links to interviews I’ve done about my own books.
Cinema and Media
- Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera on Inside Out — interview
- "There's Something About Ordinariness": A Conversation with Tom McCarthy, Director of Win Win — interview in SPU's Response
- Andrew Stanton on WALL·E — interview
- Charlie Kaufman on Synecdoche, New York — interview at Image
- Joss Whedon and the cast of Serenity and Firefly — interviews at SPU's Response
- Alejandro González Iñárritu on Babel — interview
- Peter Jackson and the cast and makers of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King — interviews at SPU's Response
- Wim Wenders on Don't Come Knocking, Wings of Desire and more — interview
- Do You Believe in Demons? A Conversation with Scott Derrickson, Director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose
- "It's the Sanctity of Life": A Conversation with Darren Aronofsky, Director of The Fountain
- Danny Boyle: The Looking Closer Interview - (Shorter version published at Christianity Today)
- The Day the Director of I Heart Huckabees Turned Me Into a Priest: A Conversation with David O. Russell
- Mike Rich: Screenwriter for The Nativity Story and The Rookie
- The Edge of Darkness: A Conversation with Jacob Aaron Estes, Director of Mean Creek
- You Gotta Sin to Get Saved: A Conversation with Patrice Leconte, Director of Intimate Strangers
- America's Heart and Soul: An Interview with Cinematographer Louis Scwartzberg
- Learning Can Save Your Life: A Conversation with Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Elf's Todd Komarnicki: Producer, Director, Writer—and Believer
Music: Recording Artists, Singers, Songwriters
When it comes to music, I've only published conversations with personal heroes.
Sam Phillips
- The Looking Closer Interview (2004)
- A video interview about The Long Play (co-starring Luci Shaw) (2009)
- Image, Issue #60
Over the Rhine
- Making Songs Out of Stories: Linford Detweiler on 10 Years of Songwriting (2000)
- Coming Home to Ohio: Linford Detweiler on the New Double Album (2003)
- The Stuff of Staying Together: Linford Detweiler on the Story Behind Drunkard's Prayer (2005)
The Innocence Mission
Literature: Writers and Readers
- Can You Handle the Truth?: A conversation with National Book Award finalist Sara Zarr
- A Conversation With David Brooks: Seattle Pacific University's Downtown Business Breakfast guest speaker considers questions about the relationship between education and character.
- Cultivating the Imagination: A conversation with the pastor and writer Eugene Peterson.
- The Event of Poetry: A conversation with poet Scott Cairns about reading, writing, and responsibility
- Mr. Gioia Goes to Washington: A conversation with Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. (Unabridged version here.)
- Margaret D. Smith: A conversation with the author of Holy Struggle and Barn Swallow
Jeffrey Overstreet, Interviewed
- Interview (Iambic Admonit, 2011)
- Beyond the Walls of the World (Circe Institute, 2011)
- Art, Questions, and The Ale Boy’s Feast (Speculative Faith, 2011)
- Unfolding Our Imaginations One Thread at a Time (Curator, 2010)
- Faerie Frenzy (I Love Artists, 2010)
- Why Celebrities Matter to Us (interviewed with Cathleen Falsani) (The Other Journal, 2010)
- Interview (Brandywine Books, 2010)
- Two-Part Interview on Raven’s Ladder (Part One, Part Two) (Rachel Starr Thomson, 2010)
- The Revelatory Power of Story (Strange Horizons, 2009)
- Weaving the Colors (Grasping for the Wind, 2008)
- Painting Auralia’s Colors (The Other Journal, 2008)
- Cyndere’s Midnight (Epic Tales, 2008)
- Cyndere’s Midnight (Superfast Reader, 2008)
- Cyndere’s Midnight (Deena’s Books, 2008)
- Interview (Fantasy Debut, 2008)
- Auralia’s Colors (Deena’s Books, 2008)
- Fantasy and Myth: A Roundtable Discussion (The Kindlings Muse, 2007)
- Serials and Scenarios (Part One, Part Two) (Kelly Klepfer, 2007)
- “Studying the Silver Screen,” Christianity Today (2007)
- Auralia’s Colors (Superfast Reader, 2007)