CAROLINE THOMPSON - Writer / Director
Team Deakins
The Miracle of All Time
I was a pretty cunning novelist and can manipulate people. I never felt it was fair to a reader or a director to give stage directions as it were. So I kind of eased my way into what turned out to be the great love of my life, writing films. If you write a novel, you control everything. But when you give over a script, when they're actually directing it, instead of having him do whatever you thought they should do, they make him do something completely different. How do you deal with that? Not very well. My first experience was Edward Scissorhands which is a really tough page to be on because it had a very unusual tone. Everybody who worked
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