It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.
It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn`t said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors` faces without dialogue.
If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can`t help thinking about the way people talk. You`re drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can`t help yourself.
I`m excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public`s help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.
I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.
It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.
