Lilies of the Field starring Sidney Poitier, the First Black Man to Win the Best Acting Oscar #book2movies
Lilies of the Field starring Sidney Poitier, the First Black Man to Win the Best Acting Oscar #book2movies
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‘‘I was always interested in Giacometti’s work. Then I found a book called A Giacometti Portrait upon which the film is based. I just loved the book. I felt it was the best book ever written about the creative process. I always thought about trying to make it into a movie. I finally got the guts years later to ask James Lord for the rights. It took 13 years to get it made, but we finally did it.
“But I wanted to explore the dynamic of someone being painted and the creative process, the frustrations, the highs the lows of it, the intellectualization of it, the impulsiveness of it, the seriousness of it and the comedy of it. Because to me it is funny. And Giacometti had all of that, because he was so self-effacing.