David Duchovny Wry, thoughtful, but not detached, David Duchovny (House of D, Trust the Man, Bones) ironic yet emotional approach to acting gave The X-Files a center and also grounds his satiric new film, The TV set.

John Frizzell Composer John Frizzell's score have covered a wide and deep expanse, from the excentricity of Office Space to the large-scale registers of Alien Resurrection.  He talks about The Reaping, and bringing the music in his head to the movies.

Quentin Tarantino Writer-director Quentin Tarantino works when he wants to on what he wants. Reserve Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, the Kill Bill films and, now, his newest part of a double bill, Death Proof.

Rory Kennedy Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy (American Hollow) has melded her curiosity to subjects of social injustice.  Her new documentary, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, took on different shadings as she learned.

Anne Beatts In 1975, a comedy series connected to the politics and pop culture of young people, NBC's Saturday Night Live debuted.  Its first season is now on DVD.  Anne Beatts, one of a handful of women writers on the original Saturday Night Live, drops in to talk about being a pioneer among a group of pioneers.

James Sanders The book, Scenes from the City: Filmmaking in New York, is not only a sumptuous and evocative photo-history of New York filmmaking, it's a sharp and compelling look at city's cultural and social history through cinema.  Its editor, James Sanders (co-writer or the Emmy Award-winning PBS series New York: A Documentary Film and its companion volume, New York: An Illustrated History, as well as Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies), connects the dots, from Marlon Brando to Woody Allen.

George Miller There's not as big a gap between the Mad Max cycle of films, the Babe movie and Happy Feet as you might think. They all come from filmmaker George Miller, whose instincts as a entertainer also connect to using film as fable.  He discusses the difference between making film for kids and for adults.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Communication is not only a theme in the films of Alejandro González Iñárritu.  In Amores Perros, 21 Grams and his newest, Babel, it's also a plot point.