What was it like for you to work with Willem Dafoe and Greg Kinnear, two very different actors?
They were both our first choice. There was no kind of star search. And luckily for me they just hit it off. Did you intend on having two very different kinds of actors? Yes, that was the idea. You know, Felix and Oscar make a porn movie. What was it like for you working on a story about a real person who is now dead? You have two obligations: you have an obligation to history, so you have to be as truthful and accurate as you can. You can never be completely accurate. The other thing is that you have an obligation to drama. You have to tell a story that has a character and importance as fiction. So, it’s required that you combine these to obligations. So if you find that you cannot serve one without the other, then you should re-think whether it should be done at all. What are some of you hopes for this film, what do you hope people will walk away with after viewing it? Well, they will walk away with many things. I am from the school that believes that the final scene in the film shoul
