How possible is it to film a play successfully, a work conceived in one definite medium?
HP: The play of “Butley” was written for the stage. The film “Butley” was conceived for the screen. On the stage one of the challenges that faces a diarector, a writer and the actors is how to focus the attention of the audience, how to bend the focus, how to insist that the focus of the audience goes in one specific direction when there are so many other things to look at on the stage. With a film the audience must attend only to the particular image you’re showing them. They have no chance to do anything else, unless they’re more interested in their ice cream or the person next to them. Q: While Peter Hall was directing “The Homecoming,” you were evidentally around the set a good deal — you’ve been directing “Butley” — the author, Simon Gray, has been around on the set a good deal. What do you think is actually gained from this kind of writer-director relationship — what is the benefit of the writer being there? HP: There was, as you know, a tradition which still obtained when I s
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