INTERVIEWS: Leung, Herzog, Gilliam

The New York Times profiles 2046 star Tony Leung Chiu Wai in a fascinating feature entitled Still in the Mood for a Collaboration. "One day your pop disappears. And from that day on I try not to communicate with anyone. I'm so afraid to talk to my classmates, afraid that if someone says something about family I won't know what to do. So I became very isolated. So that's why I love acting, because I can express all my feelings the way I couldn't for so long."

Meanwhile, New York Newsday talks to director Werner Herzog about his new documentary Grizzly Man and his fascination with risk takers. "Sometimes, it is better to have a question. It is better to have a dark abyss that you fleetingly look into, but you do not illuminate."

Coming Soon has a fun interview with Terry Gilliam about The Brothers Grimm and more, including his sadly unfulfilled desire to direct His Dark Materials. "I kept raising my hand at the back of the class saying "Me, sir! Me, sir!" but nobody's seen my hand, I guess. [chuckles] It's a big project and I'm not sure the studio really understands what it is, which may be why it seems to be languishing at the moment." (New Line may instead hire Anand Tucker, who would replace Chris Weitz) Oh, and there's this: "The Bush administration is very much closer to the Ministry of Information in Brazil than anything I've seen before."