One of the joys of independent film is being able to offer every role to your first choice. Remarkably, everyone I wanted said "yes," even when I asked them to defer salaries. And we have some big hitters: Jane Sibbett ("Friends", "It takes Two"), David Newsom ("The Days," "24"), Beth Grant ("Donny Darko," "The Rookie," "Six Feet Under"), Patrick Cassidy ("42nd Street," "Smallville"), Anne Ramsay ("Mad About You"), Mark Moses ("Desperate Housewives"). Happily, they were all on board because they loved the script. Like any independent, we had extremely limited budget, so we all wore a lot of hats. I had a wonderful D.P. (Pete Smith) his assistant, and a very talented make-up artist (Misa Aikawa). That was it. I was the sound guy, props, production coordinator, set construction, camera loader, transpo, and craft services in addition to being writer, producer, director and editor. It was a barn raising, and it was great. In fact it was so great I'm thinking I might give a greenlight to our next project, "Ruby Dice." (Maybe I'll give myself a raise too.) After all my years in the network/studio system, I love the creative freedom of independent film. It's pretty intoxicating.
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