With Cold Sassy Tree Having Its First

With Cold Sassy Tree Having Its First Production, I Saw No Necessity To Do Anything Other Than Produce It With The Correct Setting.

In Silent Movies, They Tended To Put The Camera Down, And Everybody Walked In Front Of It And Acted, And Then They All Walked Off. Cutting Was Quite Infrequent.

When I Was 24 I Went To Nigeria And It Was Such A Culture Shock, Growing Up In Australia And Suddenly Being The Only White Man In This Unit Full Of Black Men.

On Stage, The Audience Watches From A Fixed Viewpoint And The Director Cannot Retake Something He Doesn't Like. It Has To Work Straight Through.

At Hbo, They Seem To Be Well-informed. They Make What I Think Are Really Quite Mature Films.