Director Jonathan Demme was recently interviewed at BFI Southbank about his Jimmy Carter documentary Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains. The film follows Carter on his recent controversial book tour for Palestine Peace Not Apartheid in an effort to explore the public and private sides of a man who has devoted his life to peace . During the interview Demme talks about the film and his influences:
DT: And how much did you really know about his personality before you got involved? What were the things that you discovered?
JD: There’s a profile of Carter in the New Yorker by Hendrick Hertzberg, who writes wonderful political stuff, especially for the New Yorker. He had been a Carter speechwriter and sometime in the early 90s he wrote this incredibly loving profile of Carter. And I was excited because there is this combination of this presidential-sized ego, convinced you’re right, macho, in the sense of striding the world, contrasted with this weepy, big-hearted guy who will burst into tears at the drop of a hat. So that sounded like a nice, complicated character and certainly a more complicated character than we knew of on the basis of what we saw from the media during his presidency and since. [Guardian Unlimited]
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