Okay, I'm being a little self serving by giving myself a ten, but it is also my way of thanking all the people who worked their butts off to finish this film in nineteen days. We had over 40 locations and seventy speaking parts, and shot with two cameras. This film would never even had a chance to be completed if it wasn't for my DP, Dan Karlok, who worked tirelessly and had the patience of a saint to work with a first time director.
My partner and producer Buddy Mantia put together an amazing cast who for the most part worked for scale. We were lucky to get TR. Knight who would do take after take after take and once upside down in a garbage can with an arm that we thought was broken.
Our editor Bob Reitano, who through Buddy Mantia from a recommendation (via Jack Rollins) received from Woody Allen did an amazing job to take all the loose ends and somehow put them all together and make this first film one I feel proud of.
No film is just the directors or the writers, it's a combination of everyone's effort and they all should thank themselves for me. I'm giving the film ten stars because if the viewers only knew what it took to get this film made they might give it thirty, since that's how many years it took us to get it made.
The project started in 1980 with myself bouncing ideas to Chris Albreacht on a couch sold to me by Larry David for 70 bucks. We came a long way and I needed everyone to make this happen. Thank you. Hope we all get a lot of work from this effort.
My partner and producer Buddy Mantia put together an amazing cast who for the most part worked for scale. We were lucky to get TR. Knight who would do take after take after take and once upside down in a garbage can with an arm that we thought was broken.
Our editor Bob Reitano, who through Buddy Mantia from a recommendation (via Jack Rollins) received from Woody Allen did an amazing job to take all the loose ends and somehow put them all together and make this first film one I feel proud of.
No film is just the directors or the writers, it's a combination of everyone's effort and they all should thank themselves for me. I'm giving the film ten stars because if the viewers only knew what it took to get this film made they might give it thirty, since that's how many years it took us to get it made.
The project started in 1980 with myself bouncing ideas to Chris Albreacht on a couch sold to me by Larry David for 70 bucks. We came a long way and I needed everyone to make this happen. Thank you. Hope we all get a lot of work from this effort.