We don't outline, so we don't have prospective tasks to divide up. It's just, we start at the beginning and talk the first scene through, write it up, proceed to the next.

All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do it.

I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does.

We haven't had to defend anything to anybody.

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.