Billy Ray is one of Hollywoods most respected screenwriters. With the release of 2003s Shattered Glass he became one of the most exciting directors as well. His sophomore directing project is Breach, which details the true story of the most dangerous spy in US history. Robert Hanssen [played by Chris Cooper] has always been known as one of the FBIs most renowned operatives. When fledging agent Eric ONeill [played by Ryan Phillippe] is assigned to spy on Hanssen, he discovers that there are many things about the man he admires. All the while he...
Good interview. That Weston book is good (I'm trying to make time to get through the follow-up The Film Director's Intuition right now) and as good a book as any when it comes to examining the actor-director dialectic, I think. Nice work, DRE.
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FEB 16, 2007 06:00 AM