'THE SPECTACULAR NOW' INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR JAMES PONSOLDT

PAUL SALFEN TALKS TO DIRECTOR JAMES PONSOLDT ABOUT ‘THE SPECTACULAR NOW’

“I’ve never had much interest in directing someone else’s script because there are so many stories I want to tell of my own,” he explains. “So I kind of begrudgingly sat down to read this. Right from the start, it was a really fast, engaging read, but I still didn’t know if I wanted to spend time with this guy Sutter and all his cynicism and arrogance. But by page 10, everything changed. Sutter falls on his face – literally and Emotionally – and then he wakes up to this girl who changes his life. Suddenly, from then on it was a story I related to more than anything I’ve ever read.” – Ponsoldt