Interviews

Mara is generous about the directors she’s worked with. Of Todd Haynes, with whom she worked on Carol, she says: “Todd is such a beautiful human being. He’s so talented and understated in everything he does, and he loves women so much. I felt so comfortable around him; so safe in his hands. And you feel that in everything he does. He loves and admires and respects women so much that he can tell their stories.”

“Working with Terry was the most unique experience I’ve ever had on a film. He’s the most original human I’ve ever encountered. He’s so interesting and smart and funny and sweet, but also totally in command. He’s really hard to describe because he’s so unlike anyone I’ve ever met. And making Song to Song was totally unique – there weren’t two days that were the same. Every day you had no idea what would happen. There was no script, but we had hundreds of script pages. We’d arrive and be told, ‘Okay, tomorrow we’re going to do these ten pages’ but you never did them. You’d drop lines from them. It was very strange and very, very, challenging.”