But in all that, I had not done an adaptation of classic Indiana fiction.

It was pretty fast for me, actually. I worked on it in very concentrated ways. . . .

That really took the wind out of our sails,

We're not executing, and we haven't been executing for four weeks now. I wish that I could figure out what would fix that problem. I'll scratch my head, break down the film, and we will do it as a team.

When I took this program over, I told these parents that I was going to take care of those young men like they are my own, ... If that was my son, that's what I would have done.

From the first paragraph, I was hooked. I really felt taken by his voice and the way he was writing about the Midwest, in particular.

It always matters who the storyteller is. It’s a lens.