i had seen. >> about bill kunningham. >> rose: for those who don't know bill kunningham is a photographer at the new york times and takes these really wonderful pictures and he is everywhere. and he has a way to capture stuff that appears every sunday. >> so there had been that and the joan rivers documentary which had been fantastic and the valg tino documentary. so there was this spait of great cultural documentaries coming out. and it seemed to me that we could make one of those. and that it would allow her to be the star of it. and i could kind of help nar rate her story. thenhe summer after she died, i was in the hamptons at our country house and i realized that the last two essay collections she wrote, i feel bad about my neck and i remember nothing, were both, that she had done the audiotapes of both. and i knew almost immediately that we could supplies pieces of them throughout the film and that she would be able to nar rate large portions of it herself. >> rose: so was this an opportunity to share your mother with the larger woferl or an opportunity for you in a sense to take all