Martin Pensa ( Dallas Buyers Club, Wild) came on as editor, so we really have people who are at the top of their game doing it for the soul many of them had strong personal reasons to make this movie.” How involved were you in Aaron’s characterisation of you, and the making of the film overall? Then we had Mary Claire Hannan, who cut her teeth working with Quentin Tarantino on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, making the costumes. Jeff Cronenweth, who has worked on just about every David Fincher movie from Fight Club to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, did the cinematography for pretty much nothing.
Despite the small budget we had a top cast and crew. ST-J: “Well, no one was shooting this movie for the money. Sam had given Jay and Damien a copy of A Million Little Pieces and they both loved it.” How did you set about finding the right cast and crew for the film? I have always been obsessed with art and I knew Jay Jopling and some of the artists he represents, like Damien Hirst. JF: “We first met in 2004 at Sam’s solo show Sorrow, Suspension, Ascension at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York. I trust you so just do whatever you want to do.’” How did you and Sam first meet? The phone call ended with me saying: ‘You can have the rights for free. If one of your friends is a great chef, and they call you up and say, ‘Hey, can I cook a meal for you?’, you say, ‘yes of course!’. I’ve known Sam for a long time and she is somebody I admire as an artist, a director and a human she always stays true to her vision. So she said: ‘Can Aaron and I make it into a movie?’. She asked if I was doing anything with A Million Little Pieces. JF: “As if by some perfect synchronicity, around mid-2016, I got an email from Sam followed by a phone call.
Anyway, a few years ago the rights came back to me and, although I got enquiries about adapting the book all the time, I decided that I just didn’t need this film to be made.” What made you change your mind? The movie business is tricky: you get an actor or director and their schedule changes you have funding and then the company has two films in a row that don't work and it falls apart. I had sold the rights to the book, and there had been a few attempts at making the film that didn’t work out for whatever reason. James Frey (JF): “For me it was always going to be about who was making the movie adaptation and the spirit with which they were approaching it.
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