another interview susan that's right with the foot viewers you got another
one for you and it's a good one a few weeks ago i sat down with triple threat
director writer and producer chris weitz who got hysterical directing the
nineteen eighty-nine hit american pie with his brother paul then went on to
direct the great movie about a board based on the book binding corned beef
starring hugh grant after that whites have captured rick make a budget tent
poles like to dozens of is the golden compass and in two thousand nine the
latest installment of the author successful twilight series so much
surprise people like society to a small budget in internet first next film a
better life which tells the story of carlos an undocumented gardner pay by
going into sheer his efforts to create a better future for his american-born
teenage son by by his bosses pickup truck and starting his own landscaping
business when the truck is still in the sense carlos and son played by jose
huyen on a quest across los angeles to get back you see my review of a better
life on what the foot by clicking the annotation blower looking in the
intersection of this video
christian i talked about the challenges and rewards of making a movie about a
legal immigrants wheels republicans get out of the film if they see it in movies
that were influential in his life so i hope you enjoy and i hope that you
enjoying my new show rethink their visas is missing out on the team mighty
network this july
so so i was reading in the press kit you you're saying that units and it's not
just text of the audience but that's also for you know the people represents
and all the people helped you like the people that homeboy industries doing
what it's like to have
added pressure of not just trying to do making entertaining engaging the but
also to have that and also the pressure of you know this much-maligned group
that people seem to be attacking well uh...
it is that it is responsible is a very seriously i mean we got a lot of help on
this movie i think that that's the big famous movie for for me was as a
director of learning to listen to people and to ask for help
comin july the first time so there is a good father that we both are more
industry-specific intervention program he's los angeles
and he gives jobs to gang members who wanted
uh... coming out of the cold
and so there are you know we had to customer more is working
uh... in our crew we
uh... castrating members from mexico members
who had been a number industries we got advice from uh... uh... high school kids
from the after-school program that legacy l_a_
and saddam
i feel the tremendous
jet of gratitude to them
and we owe it to them not a demon eyes them which i think the script succeeds
in doing
but also too
uh... the very hardworking people
uh... you know
brings our future can take it away who at to take care of our children uh...
uh...
manicure are gardens make life easier for us in general
and sure during no more no less than uh... what a lot of our forefathers did
when they came to this country
um... and so it's only half of the picture is uh...
the for distribution to the choir of people who were the
you know have heart for these people
uh... it's really important to me that uh... somebody from that background
might go and see this movie and feel like it was maybe has been made for me i
feel like uh... this is accurate and i've dinner
paid respects
and and speaking of you know i just
interprets the choir i mean i either
other plans several the satellite
arizona in alabama and and and and you know deferred
for a kind of conservatism include bankers like what would you book they
would take away from from seemed like this
well set the ought to take away assumes that they would go to the first place i
would hope that they would go to it what they take away is that uh... people are
talking about her actually human beings not just numbers
not just threats
the vast majority are ayala of um...
uh... hispanic immigrants in america
are uh...
law-abiding
except for one his reception churchgoing
uh... responsible hard working family loving people um...
i saw an interesting t-shirt uh... thing that you still have the other day uh...
who would jesus for
um... and so the question really becomes one of our invocation uh... and whether
we use eve these people is the other or whether we can see some something of
ourselves an and i think that the other in large part is really just a movie
about a father's love for his son and was willing to do to make his life
better
and it's what i would do in the same situation
um...
citizens of the universality of of this issue
unit in terms of the idea
you know a movie like this possibly in a changing people's opinions making most
and curious about you know when you were
maybe when you were younger starting out your member like movies that you saw
that really change the way he thought about the group of people who are or
maybe just a big issue that maybe you were on the other side and so far
there's another side to this end of this magnitude of sentiment
um... star wars suppose very program far until i saw star wars and i really fancy
that evil plans
joking aside i mean
i think an example of a film that can really make a tremendous impact is is
the killing fields
um...
i think most people want to that may be not knowing that the country called
cambodia actually existed
and and after they saw that film it was undeniable that not only did did exist
but that's something terrible had gone on there
um... and
ends uh... that date
they had to understand that from from that point onwards and i think it
actually
provoked a shift in the way that people dealt with that country
uh...
hands uh...
now that's an extraordinary ship titanic film they're all kinds of films that you
can look at that can change people's minds and obviously the the film that
this uh... sort of knobs gee-whiz his bicycle thieves others to seek a movie
and uh... i think that i asked for some sympathy for
uh... for poor people
uh... and postwar italy
uh... but you could look at something like that but
kramer versus kramer which takes a a very um... so hot button issue which was
divorced at that time and broken families
and stop by talking about it by concentrating on about five by ashes
pointing the camera at it
uh... provokes a national discussion which is a lot more informed on the one
that had preceded it
fault always mostly in the christmas season like the film to film has no
political agenda
american morning immediately just in the
paper politicize grow more in our sins that healthier republicans i think
accomplices everything right on that they don't but they don't like
this is the idea of of looking at at these kind of sort of under-appreciated
people who are given much attention like
is it hard to avoid the sort of political aspect of because i'm sure the
geopolitical useful steven ison their monsters recidivists well uh...
i think um...
others are before the cameras some of the shots and the thing
um...
for them
um...
end i think it's certainly
uh... in that regard were sympathetic towards i've done ambitious character
especially because the amazing performance that he has
but as well the you know the camera takes in uh...
all sorts of sides of the questions there are
mom icd enforcement officers and cops who were not for trade is bad guys
they're just doing their job
and i understand she uh... the other side of the issues welfare scary things
these are scary things to people living on the border and arizona and texas
um... no matter where you come down on things i think that um...
a more honest a assessment of the elements at play
in this question can only help
uh... and right now there are people who are being talked about and the third
person and
because uh...
anna's numbers and statistics and this gives you a chance to see them uh...
close up
bands to understand a bit more who were talking about
and movies that you mentioned that the bicycle thesis in its infancy
as we can to struck by the media just kind of top ten cities and spending on
normally dissenting television suitcases money orders semifinals and and this is
like this kind of slow to kind of happening in slow motion as they have to
take buses and are walking around in attorneys if they really liked traffic
crime story of detectives
store creaky movies they use this reference in this wool um...
really uh... because that's come out my uh... john route but uh... i have to say
that the script is kind of written like a thriller more than anything else um...
even
in the uh... what it said you know sincerely engine that kind of uh... some
peace
it really like the the unexpected happens often ended things don't go
quite the way the you think they're going to go
uh...
it's maybe a heist maybe in the reversal something uh... and it's a lot
more like a thriller then
and uh... anybody would expect