Q&A: William Friedkin

1:52 PM PDT 7/30/2009 by Empty, AP

Five questions with the famed helmer and Locarno honoree

While none of William Friedkin's films has ever screened in Locarno, the festival is honoring the prolific director's career with a Swisscom Leopard of Honor and will screen his underrated 1985 crime drama "To Live and Die in L.A." The Hollywood Reporter's France correspondent Rebecca Leffler spoke with the director about the Locarno honor, his next project and how he "sort of" discovered William Petersen.