Katy Perry’s ‘Firework’ is perfect, but it took Aster trying hundreds of songs after not getting the rights to a Jay-Z track. On this week’s episode of the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, writer/director ...

The writer and director Ari Aster narrates a sequence that features Perry’s pop song “Firework.” By Mekado Murphy In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making ...