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How to Write a Film About a Dead Person

When you're doing research about wagner, it's different when you're relying on what other people said about that person. And then you meet the person and you write your own film based on your observations. The thing i've learnt about making films about people who are alive, or appear to be alive, is that practically everybody you talk to doesn't tell you the truth. They hey want their footnote in the the major story, as it were. I mean, i can give you, now, i think about a perfect example of this. I made a film about strevinsky at the request of strevinsky's widow,. It was hoped to be the definitive film about stre

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