Screen's Mike Goodridge talks to Sam Mendes

By Peter Bowen On June 26, 2009

In ScreenDaily, Director Sam Mendes talks to fellow Brit (and US Editor of Screen International) Mike Goodridge about making movies, Mike Leigh, and the managing expectations. On the making of Away We Go, Mendes recounts:

When we got to the focus group after our first preview, all 25 people said they liked Burt and Verona…That was when I thought the movie may be too long but it works. You like them, you engage with them. That was the big challenge on this film.