Word: se
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...SE: There's a hunger for good stories. A lot of the movies I see I just zone out, because I don't get gripped. Everything has gotten so technical for awhile, you wind up just out-technicaling yourself, you know, until the point where you can't go anywhere, where you're stopped by technology in a lot of ways. I think there is a great hunger for stories about people, and the idea of empathizing with characters has kind of gone away. Traveling around with this movie, I've heard lots of people actually empathize with the characters...
...SE: It started with Kathy Kennedy and Frank Marshall [two of the producers], they had auctioned the book awhile ago, and were trying to kind of get it going. They became familiar with my work in the theater, and they gave me the book, and I just loved it. When we were putting it together, we made a decision, because it was my first movie and because it's a complex movie, they afforded me the opportunity to tell the movie the way I wanted to tell it. First Look has a branch called Overseas Film Group, and they...
...SE: It's so completely different. A lot of people ask that question, and it's a hard question to answer. Theater is so visceral, it's so in the moment and you have a picture of it all the time, the acting is all about body and language, and the language is very different. Film is about image, and what I found so beautiful is that you can be more intimate than you can on the stage. But it was challenging. The fun thing about filmmaking for me was that it didn't just use the art part...
...SE: I say "heightened naturalism," but it's really my version of naturalism. I say "heightened" because I've found in front of the camera that stillness passes for naturalism, that there doesn't have to be any kind of behavior, that there has to be this sort of tightness, which is a myth in my opinion. When actors open their mouths and speak and are expressive, when they use their bodies, use their faces, that is natural to me. In films, actors are often very, very still because they're afraid of moving outside the camera, or the camera...
Recently, several states, including Illinois, have reexamined the effects of their death penalty laws. There is a growing trend of concern, both domestically and abroad, that executions in the U.S. may be carried out disproportionately against minorities. And while Robert Tarver wasn't arguing against his death sentence per se, TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders points out that the ensuing legal maneuvers will probably grant Tarver quite a lengthy reprieve. "Tarver argued that he couldn't legally be electrocuted, and in Alabama, that means he can't be executed. Any judicial review will take months, if not years, to wrap...