The primordial interview-documentary is Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin's "Chronicle of a Summer" (the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck), from 1960.
Wes Anderson described his primordial auteurist experience when I interviewed him for a Profile that ran in the magazine in 2009.
When I interviewed the filmmaker and primordial New Wave cohort Charles Bitsch a decade ago, I was surprised to hear his description of Jean-Luc Godard around the age of twenty: In relation to the others at Cahiers [du Cinéma], he had a little of a dandyish side, with his dark glasses, with his way of dressing… He was a little more "dressed," in quotes, than we were.
"The music is primordial for me," Mr. Canet said in an interview this week.
The primordial template is François Truffaut's collection of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock, but Truffaut and Hitchcock — though they had met a few times — weren't exactly friends.
"If it's there, it's primordial," Lori M. Feaga, another member of the science team, said in an interview.
"The one constant in revolutions is the primordial role played by the army," said Jean Tulard, a French historian of revolutions, in an interview in Le Monde.
The first stars, Dr. Bennett explained in an interview, were probably monsters 100 times as massive as the Sun and burned out rapidly and violently, transmuting primordial hydrogen and helium into heavy elements like carbon and oxygen and spewing them out into space to form the basis for future generations of stars and eventually life.
Innovation is primordial.
The waterfall is primordial.
It's positively primordial.
