I'm so thrilled to talk to you because "Past Lives", your debut featureIt was my favorite 2023 movie. So, my first question is, is there anything you learned from that experience that informed your approach to "materialists?"

Celine's song: Well, honestly, how to make a movie. (laughs) I feel like I didn't know how to make a movie making "past lives" and I feel like "materialists", I got into it at least I made a movie. It's so holistic. And what does that certainly do that it allows me to challenge myself. Because I know more, so I feel like I end up asking more of myself and my team and my team and my actors too, so I get a little greedy.

So, the character of Dakota Nsonson, Lucy is a very blunt in this film, openly talking about things that people think a lot about, but they really do not verbalize: money, class, status, such things. So how did he feel like writing about a character who tells things that similar characters do not actually say out loud?

Well, I feel like a relief that I think everyone feels in the audience when they hear the subject, the quiet part said loudly in some way, about the way we actually talk about Loveubeub and dating ... Because the truth is that it is very close to the way we think we are talking to our friends about it behind closed doors. Maybe they wouldn't say that in public. Maybe you wouldn't say that by your date, necessarily, or people who care (what they think) about you. But the truth is, they will be very open to it, I think, with someone who is a really intimate friend when it comes to dating.

As a match, I was in a position where I was listening - because I worked as a six -month match - I actually ended up in a situation where people were very honest. So, I really heard really nibbling, real, blunt. Therefore, I think that way, this is what really informed the way Lucy talks, because of this incredible relief we feel when we can say the part we all think about.

Did you find yourself seeing people differently after you left that work with weddings?

Oh, yes. I feel like I have learned a lot about people at all and more, from where all these feelings come from. There is a repetition in the film of the word "valuable". I think because of the way the world is so intended to turn us into articles and objects - there is a character in this film that says: "I'm not a commodity, I'm a person." And I think that way, we are so often converted into goods of some kind and we are required to be a commodity for Instagram, for the world, everything.

And then, something is, after all, I think we're coming back and then you have to ask the question: "Well, what was all this dating, this playing the game, for?" And that's like, "Well, it's all looking for a stroke." And that's a matter of: "How will we pass the height, weight, salary conversation and how will we get to the place where you get into someone? How will that happen?" So I think I learned so much about that disparity between the way we talk about the partner we want to grow old and what we actually want to grow old with someone.