Joe Swanberg doesn't stop.
I had a good half-hour talk with Joe Swanberg at SXSW, two days after the world premiere of his latest film "Alexander the Last" and a few days before my laptop hard drive failed, taking with it my audio files and transcripts. I'm slowly getting everything back, and while this interview isn't so timely anymore, I didn't want to let it go, either, since we covered a lot of interesting ground about how the way Joe shoots films is changing, and how he'd like to be, as impossible as it might seem, even more prolific. So here's a selection, with those points in mind: With "Alexander the Last," as far as I can remember, it's the first time you're working with people who are already established foremost as professional actors -- Jess Weixler, Jane Adams. Did that change how you went about making the film at all? Definitely. A year...
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