Making a Scene
For this year's Movies Issue, The New York Times Magazine commissioned lines from an eclectic and talented group of screenwriters — writers responsible for some of the best scripts of 2013. We asked them each to write a single line for us — not a scene, a script or a scenario, but simply an intriguing, amusing or captivating line of dialogue. Then we gave these lines to one of the great movie artists of our time: the cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, a two-time Oscar winner. Kaminski used these lines as inspiration to create 11 original (very) short films. Each short evokes a style or genre of the cinematic past and stars an actor who gave an especially memorable performance in 2013.
Director
Janusz Kamiński
Writer
Evan Goldberg, Spike Jonze, Nicole Holofcener, Danny Strong, Lake Bell, Seth Rogen, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, J.C. Chandor, Jeff Nichols, Andrew Bujalski, Greta Gerwig, Richard Linklater
Cast
Cate Blanchett
Woman
Bradley Cooper
Man
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Man
Adèle Exarchopoulos
Woman
Greta Gerwig
Woman
Oscar Isaac
Man
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Woman
Robert Redford
Man
Forest Whitaker
Man
Oprah Winfrey
Woman
