"Roger Donaldson" is an Australian-born List of New Zealand film makers/New Zealand film director, producer and writer whose films include acclaimed 1981 relationship drama Smash Palace and a run of titles shot in the United States, including Kevin Costner starrers No Way Out (1987 film)/No Way Out and Thirteen Days (film)/Thirteen Days, and 1997 disaster movie Dante's Peak.

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It's a pretty ambitious movie for what it is … Hemingway is a great writer and a great character. If anybody can play Hemingway, Tony Hopkins can.

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The optimism in the film is really based on my own experience of coming to America.

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I came with him on one of his last trips to America. The character in the film is really based upon the character that I knew.

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Hemingway invited him to Havana for some weekends and the movie is really about what happens when he goes there. It's a thriller, it's a love story, it's Hemingway as he falls apart and is suicidal. This guy was a witness to it all.

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