A: I watched Rage, the interview with Sally Potter, and the unused scenes.

Sally Potter said that most movies about the fashion industry were clichés, and they didn't work, because, to be authentic, they showed the fashion, which was immediately dated, that is, inauthentic. No longer authentic. The more authentic it was the more inauthentic it was.

By not showing the fashion, she got around that.

She put actors in front of a green screen and just shot them fairly close, talking. Acting. This eliminated questions of set design, lighting, props, costumes. Of course there was casting, and the actors did wear clothes, but it was mainly an actor, a camera, and the script.

That is, an actor's voice. Or, more precisely, the writer/director's voice, expressed through a cast.

I think people are attracted to an author's voice, and, once they find an author they like, they read everything by and about him they can find, regardless of genre. In fact, the more genres the better. It gives the voice range. Depth.

A simple structure in which to stretch out.

Q: And that's what you're doing in FLORIDA WRITER: A PI NOVEL?

A: Yes. I think it's very much like the final cut of Rage, plus the interview with Sally Potter and the unused scenes.