Why did the press stereotype him as aloof?
I think the press gets lazy once a certain kind of image is out there. It just adheres, rather than the press trying to break that down. That stereotype was completely wrong. As his daughter, I felt like he wasn’t being understood. I’d challenge the press this time to try and give accurate portrayals of people. Q: You recently signed on to direct an adaptation of The Hazards of Good Breeding, a novel about an Ivy League grad from a Waspy Boston family who wants to be a filmmaker and has a powerful father. Sound familiar? A: Yeah, it’s pretty familiar. I tried to move away and do something different, but you always come back to what you know. This certainly isn’t my own story, but there are pieces of it I relate to. It’s a world that hasn’t been looked at in an astute way in a very long time. Q: Meaning? A: I haven’t seen anything that deals with that rarefied world in a way we can recognize. Just because you’re in that world doesn’t mean you don’t have the same problems as everyone els
