Filmmaker David Gordon Green has alternated between independent and studio fare with remarkable facility, but equally impressive has been the difference in styles and genres he has explored. Coming on the heels of 2011’s studio comedies Your Highness and The Sitter, his latest film marks a return to more ruminative waters. A loose adaptation of a recent Icelandic movie, the 1988-set Prince Avalanche stars Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as a pair of bickering men painting highway road stripes through a desolate Texas countryside that’s been recently ravaged by fire. I recently attended a press day where I had a chance to sit down with Green, and chat about the film and some of his forthcoming projects. The conversation is excerpted over at ShockYa, so click here for the read.