- When the overture begins, you don't know what the opera might be or where the story might take you.
So the first one out of the bag this season, I directed.
Given that it was the beginning of a new decade, out with the old, in with the new, symbolic for where all of our relationships are at as well.
Russell came up with the idea of starting in the opera.
We went to Venice.
It's not unlike Oxford, inasmuch as you can put the camera anywhere, and it looks beautiful, but there's got something very special about it.
It's timeless, kind of a mysterious place as well.
It's winter, so that enables you to have a lot of shadows.
If you can nick things from the types of movies, thriller films, (crow caws) or those sorts of psychological horrors, how the camera moves, how you frame something, and how you light it as well, they all help to tell the story.
- Annoyingly, he seems to do it tremendously easily and well, you know, he moves from being behind the camera to joining you in front of the camera with just great ease and grace really.
- Shaun's attention to detail is just wonderful.
He's just so on the script.
He just knows it inside out.
- One of the things I admire most about Shaun is his work ethic, almost superhuman.
- He's terrific at putting guest actors at their ease.
- The set is always a really happy place to be when he's around because he's the most generous-spirited, warm human being you could ever wish to meet.
- Well Roger and I are the old farts of the company.
We compete for the light.
We compete for the lines, the closeups.
- Because it's a family, and everybody knows each other.
I mean, some have been coming back from before Endeavor, Morse and Lewis.
So they've been around for years and years and years.
- This is the 30th one we've made as well, this one that we're shooting now.
I mean it's extraordinary when you think about it, you have to salute all of the members of the team, you know, Russ, Damien, Helen, Roger, you know, everyone does such a great job, and everyone has the best interests of the show at heart.
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