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“We spent one night walking around Philadelphia [together] in 1989, and I just found out a couple years ago that she had died young, in a motorcycle accident,” a emotional Linklater said. “I didn’t know… She wasn’t even alive when we shot in Vienna. She died that Mother’s Day weekend. It’s just so sad.”

Richard Linklater on his real-life inspiration behind “Before Sunrise”

Was Adam Goldberg at all upset that he wasn’t involved in the sequel? Did you confer with him?
Not really. [Laughs] He probably was a little upset. He wasn’t very happy with the first film.

Really? Why not?
He didn’t like it… He didn’t love it. The first time he saw it he sent me a text, he was like, “You could have made a great film and you kind of failed.” I was like, “OK. Thank you.” [Laughs] Yeah, he didn’t like it, which is fine! I was not even angry at him; he’s a very complex person.

And you dated him…
And I dated him. Yeah, I’m not angry at him, I’m not angry at anybody on the planet…I know where Adam comes from and he wanted something a little less funny, he wanted to be taken more seriously or something, I don’t know; it came from some weird place.

Julie Delpy on Moving from “2 Days in Paris” to “2 Days in New York”

I am personally a big fan of Obama… A lot of people criticize him, even among the democrats, and I just feel it’s not right. Also, people don’t put themselves outside of the country — the view of the United States since Obama got elected is another world compared to when Bush was in power. You can’t compare. If Romney gets elected, you have no idea how bad the U.S. is going to look to the world… When Democrats actually trash him it makes me crazy because it’s like, What? You want Romney instead? I mean, like, Really? You want that? That’s scary.

Julie Delpy on Obama, Mitt Romney and the U.S.

I’ve read a lot of “Cosmopolis” reviews, and they’re like “It’s a return to form, like ‘eXistenZ.’” And I am like, “No, it isn’t.” Obviously it’s much closer to “Videodrome.” This is going to sound ridiculous now, but I found “Videodrome” to be more a sort of mystical understanding. “eXistenZ” had a much more basis in reality, and “Videodrome” is kind of like “Describe a dream.” Most people don’t find other people’s dreams interesting. But sometimes, if you know the person, it’s kind of interesting. I find listening to people’s dreams interesting, even if I don’t know them. I also like reading their diaries. [Laughs]

Robert Pattinson interprets David Cronenberg

I think it was an amalgamation of a lot of movies and TV shows that I watched when I was growing up. So I was a lot like Norman who sits at home watching horror movies he shouldn’t be watching. There were a lot of horror movies, a lot of those ’80s movies like “The Goonies” and Amblin movies, “Ghostbusters”, “Poltergeist” and “Scooby Doo.” I think those were just churning away in my mind through adolescence, and then it got to the point where I was like, I want to make a movie about this. But I guess the original idea was a zombie movie for kids, ‘cause I thought “Why not?”

The “ParaNorman” Directors on Their Film: “It’s John Carpenter Meets John Hughes”

I get weird things. I am an expert at reading things wrong. I will take the opposite interpretation, even when something is blatantly obvious, especially with scripts. The amount of times I’ve gone into an audition for something, I will be like, “The guy’s the bad guy, right?” And they’re like, “No, it’s ‘The Notebook.’” [Laughs]

Robert Pattinson Talks “Cosmopolis”

There’s that Chris Hemsworth guy. He’s got a good body. You need a natural body because there’s no shirt. Unless you put a plastic suit on him, like Batman, and you could stick anybody in there.

So Thor has your blessing as the next He-Man?
Thor has my blessing.

Would you want to be involved in the movie at all?
Why not? I’m not dreaming about doing it every night but if there’s a role like Skeletor’s shrink or something I could play… [Laughs] Where’d I get that from?

Dolph Lundgren On Passing on the “He-Man” Legacy to Chris Hemsworth

If you were a little kid today, what would you think of Merida and her attitude?

Never mind if I was a little kid. Now, I’m just like hopelessly in love with her.

Kelly Macdonald, the voice of Princess Merida

Filming “To Rome With Love” with Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Greta Gerwin and Ellen Page — in Italy — sounds like a dream. Did you ever stop and think, “This is really amazing”?

Yeah. Every single day. We couldn’t stop laughing. It felt rude to smile like an idiot every time Woody Allen would speak to us because it was just a shocking experience to be in the same room. Luckily, we all kind of felt it, so it felt like we could at least commiserate with feeling so uncomfortable and it was great… I imagine that’s what it must be like for anybody who goes onto a set of his. I mean, it’s impossible to be in this business and not in some way idolize him. So, yeah, it was like, every day — really thrilling.

Jesse Eisenberg on what it’s like to work with Woody Allen

What does a Woody Allen script look like?

I’ve heard the stories about being on-set and him telling the actors to say whatever you want and don’t worry about the script. But at the same time, his dialogue is so famous and specific and original and unique to him…and obviously his prose is so wonderful as well. I was curious to see how it looks and it looked a lot more normal than I expected. It looked kind of just like a normal script. But I guess because the movie scripts, in his case, are not a blueprint for investors, he can get away with saying things like, “They go to a beautiful site and there’s a beautiful shot of Rome.” Whereas scripts that are blueprints for investors have to say things like, “The sexiest woman in the world comes out and sleeps with this average man,” so the audience can live vicariously through him.

Jesse Eisenberg on “To Rome With Love”