in my sixth decade, i like to have my prejudices overturned, and i remember when our producer and chinonyent film maker. and she took me on a prison tour in ohio. we went to about four prisons, women's medium and men's maximum and medium prisons. and the women that i met there completely overturned my idea of what a prison warden was. first of all, the only thing i had in my head was those sort of sadistic people that we see in movies, but i hope everybody knows that a lot of the people that they have seen traditionally in movies, the characters brought to life, are not real or realistically rendered. taking on the project, did you need the movie to feel like it was in the end a sort of campaigning movie against the death penalty? if you hadn't believed that, would you have not taken on the project? any film that campaigns in any way or prescribes how they want an audience to feel is not a picture that i'm interested in. i think that if you're telling a story well, you're leaving it up to the intelligence of your audience. you trust that they will make the right decision, so that's what i'

in my sixth decade, i like to have my prejudices overturned, and i remember when our producer and chinonyeilm maker. and she took me on a prison tour in ohio. we went to about four prisons, women's medium and men's maximum and medium prisons. and the women that i met there completely overturned my idea of what a prison warden was. first of all, the only thing i had in my head was those sort of sadistic people that we see in movies, but i hope everybody knows that a lot of the people that they have seen traditionally in movies, the characters brought to life, are not real or realistically rendered. taking on the project, did you need the movie to feel like it was in the end a sort of campaigning movie against the death penalty? if you hadn't believed that, would you have not taken on the project? any film that campaigns in any way or prescribes how they want an audience to feel is not a picture that i'm interested in. i think that if you're telling a story well, you're leaving it up to the intelligence of your audience. you trust that they will make the right decision, so that's what i'm sa