I spoke with Joe Swanberg about performance and beer at a Philadelphia sneak peek of his new film Drinking Buddies, starring Jake Johnson, Olivia Wilde, Anna Kendrick, and Ron Livingston.
Neal Dhand: I really love the performances in this film. They’re so real and believable.
Joe Swanberg: I’ve always been into performance. With everything I’ve made, that’s where my loyalties have always been in terms of what’s important in the filmmaking process: performance, number one by a lot, everything else just in second place. In the movies where I did everything myself, if I made performance number one and everything was in a distant second place, and I was in charge of everything else, it meant it fell in a distant second place, too. Cinematography, production design, audio mix, I was like, “As long as the performances are good, they’ll carry the movie,...
Neal Dhand: I really love the performances in this film. They’re so real and believable.
Joe Swanberg: I’ve always been into performance. With everything I’ve made, that’s where my loyalties have always been in terms of what’s important in the filmmaking process: performance, number one by a lot, everything else just in second place. In the movies where I did everything myself, if I made performance number one and everything was in a distant second place, and I was in charge of everything else, it meant it fell in a distant second place, too. Cinematography, production design, audio mix, I was like, “As long as the performances are good, they’ll carry the movie,...
- 8/30/2013
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
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