"Dan Ireland" is a film director, producer and co-founder of the Seattle International Film Festival.

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The main problem was there was not a lot of money to produce it, and it was set in the 1950s. The only thing to do was to modernize the script. I also wanted to put back things I liked about the book.

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We had no permits to do the picture. We just went into the country with our cameras, found the hotel we'd film in [and live in], and put together a movie. For the crew, we couldn't afford to hire anyone but film-school graduates.

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