Bill Forsyth directs Casey Siemaszko and Burt Reynolds
[On working from someone else's script] "It's not very satisfying and also you're playing into the hands of the industry as well because at the end of the day, if it's your material you can say 'No, I didn't mean it that way'. If there is another voice there already, the presumption is that anyone's interpretation is as valid as yours. Also, it's a matter of pride. Having got away with writing scripts and directing them there's not quite the same thrill in working from someone else's material. You feel that you're not inhabiting the full space that you could or should. Writing is the most important part of it because that's where the ambitions are running at full tilt ."-- from Alan Hunter's article "Bill Forsyth: The Imperfect Anarchist"
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