大象传媒

How was the experience of writing Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

Are You Now is my favourite episode in some ways, it’s got everything I love thrown into it. Although I think it’s its own thing, I don’t think it’s a complete pastiche of other things.

It has its own mood, and David Simmel, who directed that episode, really made the movie of my script. Oftentimes, you’ll see something shot and it’s not exactly the way you thought it should be, but in this instance it was almost as if Simmel was in my head, because it looked exactly like what I was seeing when I was writing it.

I was very happy with that episode, with the way it looked, the production values, the performances - David is amazing in the episode, and very subtle. Rob Krols' score was incredibly evocative of the nuance of the 50s, specifically Bernard Herman.

We were about nine minutes over on that episode so we had to find nine minutes to pull out of it which was a little difficult because everything actually was really good. But once we pulled out that stuff it just got tighter and I thought better.