CultureCritic interviews the man behind the musicals, Cameron Mackintosh...

 'Anyone who says they know what makes a successful musical is an idiot...'

CultureCritic interviews indie director Miranda July...

  'I relate to feeling distracted by the internet...' 

CultureCritic interviews New York suburbanites Real Estate... 

 'It makes sense that there's a lot of good art from New Jersey...'

CultureCritic interviews Polish painter Wilhelm Sasnal...

 'Maybe I'm done with the Holocaust...'

CultureCritic interviews The Interrupters director Steve James...

  'I'm always amazed at how open people in different communities are...'

CultureCritic interviews Sofia Coppola's favoured pianist Dustin O'Halloran...

'There is melancholy even in the happiest of moments...'

CultureCritic interviews Olivier Award-winner Robin Norton-Hale...

  'Opera should be funny...'

CultureCritic interviews design legend Kenneth Grange...

  'It's old fart's talk, but my generation thinks waste is immoral...'

CultureCritic interviews Iain Sinclair on the Olympics...

  'It's like the equivalent of the invasion of Baghdad...'

CultureCritic interviews Nico Muhly on the dark side of online...

  'There is a romance to the internet...'

CultureCritic interviews Helen Oyeyemi on her new novel Mr Fox...

  'I like transformations, girls going on quests and trying to fix things…'

CultureCritic interviews Silent London's Pamela Hutchinson...

  'Filmmaking in the silent era was about experimentation on every level…'

CultureCritic interviews artist Angela de la Cruz...

  'All art is biographical to a certain extent…'

CultureCritic interviews Agnes Obel...

  'The main income source for musicians has disappeared...'

CultureCritic interviews Fyfe Dangerfield of Guillemots...

  'I have limits as a singer and as a songwriter...'

CultureCritic interviews Timber Timbre on the release of Creep On Creepin' On...

  'It's common for young artists to fetishise rural aestheticism…'

CultureCritic interviews director Lucy Bailey...

  'I wanted my Julius Caesar to be sexy.…'

CultureCritic interviews Femi Kuti...

  'If my father hadn't done what he did, I would be very naïve...'

CultureCritic interviews Palme d'Or-winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul...

  'I always feel like an outsider in Thailand…'

CultureCritic interviews Gaspar Noé on Enter the Void...

  'It's really for people who get stoned…'

CultureCritic interviews Lothar Koenigs...

'Nothing will replace live performance…'

CultureCritic interviews Max Richter...

  'All music is about other music…'

CultureCritic interviews Bassekou Kouyate...

  'My goal is to see young people playing the ngoni, not the guitar...'

CultureCritic interviews Jeremy Dyson, writer of Ghost Stories...

   'Getting a laugh and getting a scream are very similar…'

CultureCritic interviews celebrated author Jane Smiley...

  'I tell stories of women, and I take them seriously…'

CultureCritic interviews Liars...

  'Everything in L.A is familiar and disturbing…'

CultureCritic interviews conceptual heroes Art & Language...

  'We are not simple postmodernist rummagers...'

CultureCritic interviews Yeasayer's Ira Tuton Wolf...

  'I grew up listening to the Peter Gabriel hits...'

CultureCritic interviews Spike Jonze and Max Records on Where the Wild Things Are...

  'Chris Cunningham was very encouraging...'