FROM THE ARCHIVES: Cord Jefferson and Ryan Coogler on Writing, Directing, AMERICAN FICTION, and SINNERS (sort of)

I'm working on it.

And it's very different from anything I've done before.

And does that scare you? Yes.

Yes.

But it's the good fear.

You know, it's the good fear that you that you're talking about.

Yeah.

A lot on the line with this.

I would say, you know, I feel myself.

I feel myself getting older, not in a mortality way, but in a way of like just being limber.

You know, I'm saying kids getting older.

Yeah.

Parents getting older.

You know, I'm starting to feel that feeling of.

me being able to just run around, make things wherever, whenever.

Maybe that stage of my life is kind of going away.

Maybe it's a good thing.

But feeling like I'm making something that I would be satisfied if I never made anything else again.

Interesting.

I've been working with incredible co-writers the last few projects.

This was on my own.

Working with my company, Proximity, as producers on this thing.

I'm really, really excited working with Mike He's pretty far out of his comfort zone, which is exciting.

Just a role unlike anything he's done before.

I love that.