Filmmaker Brian Petsos on Working with Andy Garcia and Oscar Isaac on his New Film “Big Gold Brick”

Filmmaker Brian Petsos builds worlds. Over the course of days, weeks, months, and years, his mind is at work, thinking about landscapes and settings, houses and those who might inhabit them. This is how he builds his movies. It’s not what some may think: he doesn’t sit at a keyboard and plunk away until he has it. No, he does it from the big picture to the miniscule.

Petsos’ latest film is the indie triumph, Big Gold Brick, which portrays a writer going through a meltdown before rising up from those proverbial ashes. It’s funny, dark, and involves a big cast with big names like Oscar Isaac, Andy Garcia, Lucy Hale, and Megan Fox, to name a few.

We caught up with Petsos to ask him about how he makes movies, how he got into the art form, and what it was like working with such marquee names. Big Gold Brick is due out this Friday via Samuel Goldwyn Films.