A friend asked this question:
“You credit yourself as the writer and director of A Life’s Work.” Are you going to have a voice over narrator reading text you wrote?
Good question.
You won’t hear Liev Schreiber or Morgan Freeman reading copy that I wrote about Soleri, Tarter, Darden, or the Milarchs. So what have I written?
I wrote all of the questions and I guide the interviews so that (hopefully) the discussions relate to the film’s theme and fit in its framework, as well as to what the other interviewees have said. Then I scour the transcripts and choose the bits that work for the structure I’ve laid out. “Directing” doesn’t seem to be the right word and neither does “editing.” I’ll admit it isn’t quite “writing,” but the process seems to be closer to the process of writing a nonfiction book than directing a film.
That’s my reasoning at the moment. Who knows, I may just go with only “director” when it’s done.
Thanks for your interest, friend, and for asking such a great question.
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