Interviews
Here’s a collection of interviews from over the years. If you have any interviews, please, use the contact form or email the site owner at Thanks.
Please, do not post this link list on other sites. It has taken a lot of time and effort from me to find and organize these.
- Pop Matters: Sam Rockwell Loves Playing Offbeat Characters
March 27th, 2008- “Another film, another whack-job character role for Sam Rockwell. In Snow Angels, the gifted, 39-year-old character actor plays a suicidal, born-again Christian trying to reconnect with his estranged wife. So what else is new?”
- Chicago Tribune: Opportunity Knocks at Rockwell’s Door… Repeatedly
March 26th, 2008- “Now in theaters, the superbly acted drama Snow Angels hands the actor Sam Rockwell a black plum of a role. He portrays Glenn, an uneasily recovered alcoholic and born-again Christian separated from his wife, played by Kate Beckinsale. The film tells many stories, but this family’s erosion provides the through-line. Rockwell’s excellent in the picture, disarming and fierce and sad.”
- San Francisco Chronicle: Rockwell Is No Angel in ‘Snow’
March 16th, 2008- “Boy, is Sam Rockwell tired of playing the kid.”
- The AV Club: Snow Angels
March 5th, 2008- “The son of two actors, Sam Rockwell has been performing since age 10, but it took several years in the wilderness before his offbeat, colorful screen presence finally gave him a foothold in the business.”
- Guardian.co.uk Interview: It’s Scary in Here…
November 11th, 2007- “As a struggling actor, he skipped auditions to deliver burritos on his bicycle and tail cheating wives to seedy motels. Now, as he hits the big screen opposite Brad Pitt in the new Jesse James epic, Sam Rockwell tells Chrissy Iley why fame, bad girls and Gary Oldman haunt his every waking hour.”
- VH1: On the Choke Set with Chuck Palahniuk, Sam Rockwell — And Dave Matthews?!
July 8th, 2007- “Rockwell stars as a conniving, sex-obsessed, colonial theme-park worker.”
- The NY Times: Scenery Chewer Plays It Straight, Methodically
July 1st, 2007- “The long, steep stairs leading up to Sam Rockwell’s East Village apartment didn’t faze the delivery guy from the corner joint. He and the organic hot dogs arrived at the door less than 20 seconds after the downstairs buzzer sounded.”
- Movies Online: Joshua Interview
June, 2007- “MoviesOnline caught up with actor Sam Rockwell at the Los Angeles press day for his new film, Joshua, a smart, bone-chilling psychological thriller about an upscale American family directed by George Ratliff.”
- Premiere: The Galaxy’s Guide to Sam Rockwell
May, 2005- “There’s make-believe, and then there is making someone believe. Sam Rockwell is a practitioner of the former and a virtuoso at the latter. In his power, even the most mundane objects can become animated, even life-threatening.”
- FilmFocus UK: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
April, 2005- “– not only does the man behind the heads, Sam Rockwell, have only one, but he’s neither obsessed with his own self-importance nor anything near dumb, when FilmFocus caught up with him at The Dorchester recently.”
- Cinema Confidential: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
April 28th, 2005- “When The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was being prepped to go to the big screen, the producers and Douglas Adams himself had several names in mind for the role of Zaphod Beeblebrox, the wacky, charismatic President of the Galaxy who acts more like a surfer than a servant of the galaxy.”
- Joblo: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
April 25th, 2005- “The following interview was both mine and Sam Rockwell’s first of the day. It was early on a Saturday morning and these type of interviews can go either way.”
- My Village: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
2005- “Sam Rockwell is still recovering from his temporary insanity, brought on by the grave responsibility of starring in movie beast The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
- American Way: Celebrated Weekend — Sam I Am
October 15th, 2003- “The comely Canadian city of Montreal worked its charms on devilishly charming actor Sam Rockwell while he was there on location.”
- SuicideGirls Interview: Matchstick Men
September 12th, 2003- “Sam seemed like the kind of guy you want to knock back a few beers with. When he first showed up in the hotel room for our interview, he ducked into the bathroom and came out wearing a shower cap and promptly ignored everyone’s look with a sly smile on his face.”
- Cinema Confidential: Matchstick Men
September 11th, 2003- “Sam Rockwell is easily one of the big-screen’s most unique character actors. Having played a variety of roles, from good to evil, he continues to exhibit a certain flair for the kinds of characters he chooses to play.”
- The Age: More Than the Sam of His Parts
April 26th, 2003- “You’ve probably never heard of Sam Rockwell, even though you’ve probably seen him act. That’s all about to change, writes Stephanie Bunbury.”
- About.com: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2003- “Before taking on the role of Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Sam Rockwell starred in Welcome to Collinwood for George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh’s Section 8 production company.”
- IGN: An Interview with Sam Rockwell
October 9th, 2002- “Gregarious thirty-three-year-old actor Sam Rockwell, having just exited an elevator which brought him away from the hustle-and-bustle of the lobby twenty-seven floors below, walks down the hotel hallway with a pack of cigarettes in one hand and a bottle of water in the other.”
- CNN: Charlie’s Angels
November 24th, 2000- “Now, with his films and roles getting bigger, Rockwell, 32, is virtually a sure bet for Hollywood stardom.”
- Interview Magazine: Lights! Camera! The Movies’ Mandate for Change
February, 1999- “Sam Rockwell admits to occasional movie star dreams, but don’t let his honesty fool you: Swimming hard against Hollywood’s tide, he seems to have only one rule: to break as many rules as he can.”
- indieWIRE: Sam Rockwell Rocks the Indie Scene with Three New Films
June 26th, 1998- “Low-key and light-hearted, indieWIRE caught up with the charismatic actor during the madness of Sundance for a conversation about his three movies, the machismo of Steve Zahn, the depth of John Duigan and the problems of film school directors.”
- Za@Play: Crazy for You
June 4th, 1998- “Goofy, kooky, manic, wild, wide-eyed… and sleepy. Adrian Turpin gets to know Lawn Dogs star Sam Rockwell.”
- The NY Times: A Career Picks Up
(part of At the Movies; Looking Back At 2 Classics)
January 23rd, 1998- “To his amazement, the New York-based actor Sam Rockwell has been called this year’s Parker Posey. The cheerful and friendly 29-year-old actor, who is also based in New York, is in three films here — Jerry and Tom, a Quentin Tarantino-like violent comedy about some hit men, directed by the actor Saul Rubinek; a screwball comedy, Safe Men, directed by John Hamburg, and a drama, Lawn Dogs, directed by John Duigan.”
- Urban Cinefile: Lawnmower Man
January, 1998- “After being sacked from the studio movie, G.I. Jane, Sam Rockwell won the Best Actor prize at the Montreal Film Festival for his performance in Australian director John Duigan’s Lawn Dogs, one of three films featuring Rockwell at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. It was there that Rockwell talked to Paul Fischer for this, his only Australian interview.”