VIDEOS: Directors Boyle & Aronofsky Talk Film!

THE WRESTLER director Darren Aronofsky and SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE director Danny Boyle sit down for a chat about their craft.

Below are two videos from a short series produced by Fox Searchlight. In the first video, Danny talks about the camera technology in SLUMDOG. In the second, Darren and Danny swap thoughts about their respective directorial styles.

Enjoy & and stay tuned for five more videos in the pipeline soon...

Danny, on moving from the more meticulous direction required for his sci-fi movie SUNSHINE -- to the more fluid experience of directing SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, let alone filming in India:

"Because I'd done [SUNSHINE] I realized that I wanted a contrast anyway, for my own sanity. But I also realized that I should embrace it. [Indians] love that -- they get a lot of people there trying to muscle their way in, and do their thing there, and they just laugh at you. And they'd say, 'I bet there's loads of cows in your film!' They always accuse Westerners of putting a lot of cows in their films. Which there are [a lot of cows in India] of course, but they're unnaturally focused on by Westerners - whereas for the Indians it's just part of life: the cows walk through, it's like nothing, really."

Darren, on making the transition from his own sci-fi film THE FOUNTAIN to THE WRESTLER, with which he also adapted a more organic directing approach:

"For me the first three movies climaxed with 'The Fountain' and I just didn't know where to go stylistically. I kind of perfected what I was trying to do in those first two films, and I was sort of done. So, for myself, I had run the course and just wanted to try something completely different. A lot of it came out of dating an actress, and she was really into the idea of being in the moment, of not knowing what was going to happen when 'Action' and 'Cut' happened. And it was kind of inspiring, because as directors we get very few moments of being unconscious... So I just wanted to try to do that - and just that. It's the best part of the process, in a lot of ways, is between 'Action' and 'Cut.'"