The Treatment

<p>Prolific writer/producer Greg Berlanti (<em>Arrow, The Flash</em>) on how being Catholic and gay influences his storytelling. </p>

<p>Helen Hunt learns to surf in her second feature, <em>Ride</em>, as writer, director and star.</p>

<p>Nick Kroll talks about growing up in his new film as actor/writer and first time feature producer, <em>Adult Beginners.</em> </p>

<p><em>Glee</em> actress Jane Lynch hits the road with her one-person cabaret show, <em>See Jane Sing</em>. </p>

<p>Kristen Stewart has been a muse to the Beat Generation, a Knight, and a vampire. Now she's an assistant, in Olivier Assayas' new film, <em>Clouds of Sils Maria</em>.</p>

<p>Comic book artist and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola talks about trusting his gut and creating a constant sense of play in his work.</p>

<p>Matthew Weiner reflects on <em>Mad Men</em> as its seventh and final season begins its final run. </p>

<p>Editor and writer Paul Seydor on his latest book about Sam Peckinpah's last Western, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.</p>

<p>Adam Carolla on taking a common sense approach to comedy in his co-directing debut, <em>Road Hard.</em> </p>

<p>Rose McGowan on starting fresh, with her directorial debut, <em>Dawn</em>.</p>

<p>Writer and illustrator Scott McCloud goes back to creating comics with his first graphic novel, <em>The Sculptor.</em></p>

<p>"I like the dichotomy of good people sometimes behaving badly," Nahnatchka Khan on her new series, <em>Fresh Off the Boat</em>.</p>

<p>Writer/director Damien Chazelle and star J.K. Simmons on turning <em>Whiplash</em> from a Sundance short into an Oscar-nominated feature.</p>

<p><em>Birdman</em> writer/director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki talk to Elvis in front of a live audience.</p>

<p>Costume designer Arianne Phillips goes from working with Madonna to designing a Savile Row-inspired menswear line for Mr. Porter.</p>

<p>Michael Keaton on how his intense degree of focus and concentration took him from unknown comedian to Oscar-nominated actor.</p>

<p><em>Selma</em> director Ava DuVernay on being a black woman storyteller, and the power of voice.</p>

<p>Live from Park City, Elvis chats with John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, and Trevor Groth, Director of Programming.</p>

<p>French-Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan talks about his fifth film, <em>Mommy</em>. <strong>Contains explicit language</strong>.</p>

<p>Magician, actor and writer Ricky Jay shares his love for language, from carny to slang, pig latin to poetry.</p>

<p><em>Unbroken</em> starJack O'Connell talks about his rise to fame and his complicated relationship with violence.</p>

<p>Writer/director J.C. Chandor and actor Oscar Isaac discuss their latest film, <em>A Most Violent Year,</em> in front of a live audience.</p>

<p>Meet the screenwriting team behind <em>The People vs. Larry Flynt, Ed Wood</em>, and now, Tim Burton's <em>Big Eyes</em>.</p>

<p>Lawrence Grobel writes about the role of a lifetime: playing Al Pacino's biographer, consultant, and sometimes alter-ego in <em>Salome</em>. </p>

<p>Writer/director Will Gluck talks about breathing new life into the beloved comic strip turned musical, Annie. </p>

<p>As Blue Note Records celebrates its 75th anniversary, label President Don Was reflects on his own 35 years in the music business.</p>

<p>"Movies are like people. You trust them, or you don't. And I hate it when a movie lies to me." Bennett Miller discusses his latest film, <em>Foxcatcher</em>. </p>

<p>Actress Patricia Arquette on her 12-year evolution as a mother, both on-screen and off, while shooting her latest film, <em>Boyhood</em>.</p>

<p>As an actor, Christoph Waltz says his most important job is to "get out of the way."</p>

<p>Writer/director of Beyond the Lights Gina Prince-Bytheywood on how being an athlete shaped her filmmaking, and on creating female characters who swagger.</p>

<p>Christopher Nolan discusses his latest film, <em>Interstellar</em>, which stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and John Lithgow. </p>

<p>Steely Dan's Donald Fagen talks about his favorite films and his book <i>Eminent Hipsters</i>. </p>

<p>With <i>Nightcrawler, </i>longtime screenwriter and first time director <strong>Dan Gilroy</strong> wrote a script that broke with all of the narrative tropes that studios suggest. </p>

<p>Sarah Treem on co-creating <em>The Affair</em>, and subverting female archetypes.</p>

<p>Pulitzer winner and MacArthur Fellow Laura Poitras talks to Elvis Mitchell about her new documentary on Edward Snowden, <em>Citizenfour</em>.</p>

<p>Director David Dobkin and stars Robert Duvall and Robert Downey, Jr. discuss their new film, <em>The Judge</em>. CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE.</p>

<p>Graphic novelist and comics writer Ed Brubaker (<em>Captain America: The Winter Soldier</em>) on his latest series, <em>The Fade Out</em>, a meta-noir set in seedy 1948 Hollywood.</p>

<p><em>New York Times</em> columnist Charles M. Blow talks about coming of age in constant crisis in his first memoir, <em>Fire Shut Up in My Bones</em>.</p>

<p>Quentin Tarantino takes over as head programmer at LA's New Beverly cinema, using many of the film prints from his own personal collection.</p>

<p>Filmmaker Scott Frank on adapting Lawrence Block's popular novels to the big screen in <em>A Walk Among the Tombstones</em>.</p>

<p><em>Date Night</em> director Shawn Levy adds feeling and honesty to a big studio project with the dysfunctional family comedy <em>This Is Where I Leave You</em>.</p>

<p>Writer/director Craig Johnson and stars Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig talk about their new film, <em>The Skeleton Twins</em>. Contains adult language.</p>

<p><em>The Boondocks</em> creator Aaron McGruder talks about making the switch to live action with his new show <em>Black Jesus</em>.</p>

<p>Daniel Schechter loved Elmore Leonard's book <em>The Switch</em> so much, he wrote a script for it on spec. Years later, the film became a reality.</p>

<p>"'Subtext' and 'motivation' are terrible words on a set, and they should be banned," says Ira Sachs on directing <em>Love is Strange</em>.</p>

<p>Actress Amy Brenneman on the "private, isolating, strange process" of playing Laurie Garvey on HBO's <em>The Leftovers</em>.</p>

Writer/director James Gunn on turning a group of outcast ragtag superheroes into the summer's biggest blockbuster.

<p>Actor, writer, and director Roger Guenveur Smith discusses his one man show, <em>Frederick Douglass Now</em> at LA's Bootleg Theater.</p>

<p>Director Steven Soderbergh talks about the project that pulled him out of his sabbatical, <em>The Knick</em> on Cinemax.</p>

<p>Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome, also known as <em>Garfunkel and Oates</em>, share stories from the road and talk about their new series on <strong>IFC</strong>.</p>