Short interview with Charlie and Eva @ Hollywood Reporter, in anticipation of "How To Shoot A Ghost" debuting at Venice. Click through for the whole thing, but here are some spoiler-free quotes:

Kaufman met [Eva] while working on a novel at the MacDowell Artist Residency in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

“I wasn’t even aware of his background in film,” she says via Zoom in a joint interview with Kaufman. “I thought Charlie was a budding novelist.”

“There’s that sort of saying, ‘I’ll rest when I’m dead,’ ” Kaufman says. “But I’m not really sure it’s a rest. My sense is that it’s nothing — not rest. Because rest is something, and it implies consciousness.”

The film served as New Yorker Kaufman’s introduction to Athens — “a place I wasn’t familiar with and where I don’t speak the language. It was exciting for me to engage with it that way.” Eva spent her childhood there but now lives in Brooklyn and often finds herself longing to revisit. “So if I can trick people into making films there, all the better,” she says. “And that’s exactly what happened in this case,” adds Kaufman.

“One of the advantages of making short films,” Kaufman says, “is that you can experiment with the form. You don’t have the obligation to make money for the people who financed it, and no one’s expecting that you will.”

Looking forward to this one!