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" I think your camera angles have to be inspired by what you are trying to achieve. Each film with Shane's World has a different flavour. The Poppa Squeeze Affair is probably the most designed film. I remembered and thought about films that I had seen in gangster films, and programmes like Starsky & Hutch.
I thought about the places where they put cameras. By putting the camera on the floor, and having people walk down the street whilst you are walking backwards with the hand-held camera will make everything feel gritty and real.
Again, it comes down to getting the feeling of the pace right. You don't have to just do everything with a hand-held camera. If you have really stylish, locked off, almost photographic shots, juxtaposed against rough and ready fight sequences, then you are starting to get into the feeling of the genre.
So, you don't have to research in huge depth, but at the same time, you need to try and put a flavour into it. Do what you do best but add a theme to it too so that you can jazz things up. "

" Well, as I have explained before, costume and clothes, are really a great way of freeing people and allowing them to be themselves. It's almost like being a kid, and you become superman. Suddenly your imagination is something completely different.
Obviously with something like The Poppa Squeeze Affair, having a costume character was really important, because to make him look and feel like a believable gangster there's a certain look needed. For instance, he needs Italian trousers, a nice cool orange short sleeved shirt and even the tatooes on his arms were meant to look like prison tatooes.
If you can help that person build an idea of who their character is, the accent will not be so relevant because the person will believe that they are that character. Even if it is the worst American accent you have heard of, if that person believes in themselves, then you are going to get a good performance out of them.
That's the most important thing. You can have one million pounds to spend on a film but if nobody believes in what they are doing, you'll get absolute shit. With something like The Poppa Squeeze Affair it was a case of making the actor feel like he was the Al Pacino look-a-like. We did not go over the top with a huge Italian suit and polished shoes. We did not breach beyond the point of believability. Just the smallest detail in costume can make a big difference. "

" It is important to be inspired by films but it is also important that you are just not copying what you have seen. From my experience with a film like The Poppa Squeeze Affair, I have always loved gangster films and crime films - like the French Connection, Mean Streets and Goodfellas. They are all films which we all love. People who are generally into films consider people like Martin Scorcese as a benchmark. However, if all you are trying to do is get a guy who drives a mini-cab around Burton, he is a bit of a depressive, and was in a war or something, then you are basically trying to rip somebody off.

It's about being inspired and having a voice yourself. If you are showing somebody that you can copy them, then you are never going to climb out of the circle you are in. So it's really important you are inspired by people and those influences are reflected in your films, but make sure those influences don't reflect onto your films. The main thing is not to let the inspiration take over and make sure you do not replicate these ideas. If you have got a voice all of your own, you can bring other styles and other influences into that can work and still manage to retain your own voice. "