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.
Janusz Kamiński
Director
Richard Linklater
Writer
Ethan Hawke
Writer
Julie Delpy
Writer
Spike Jonze
Writer
Seth Rogen
Writer
Danny Strong
Writer
Greta Gerwig
Writer
Andrew Bujalski
Writer
Evan Goldberg
Writer
Nicole Holofcener
Writer
Lake Bell
Writer
Jeff Nichols
Writer
J.C. Chandor
Writer