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00:00No.
00:09I've had, I guess, more plaques and statues and certificates from that one than from any other picture,
00:17but looking back on it, I think maybe it was the easiest picture to make of any that I can recall.
00:23I guess it's because we identified emotionally with everything that happened in there.
00:31The character was one that I recognized from the moment I read the book.
00:37I had a small town upbringing.
00:40I was a kid who climbed trees and rolled around and curled up in a rubber tire.
00:45My father was not the town lawyer, but he was the town druggist.
00:49There was only one of everything.
00:50So it all fell into place, and it was like swimming downstream the whole time.
00:58We had been down to Alabama, to the hometown of the author, Harper Lee, to see if we couldn't shoot it there.
01:05But the story took place in 1931, and in 1962, the town had just changed too much.
01:12So we reconstructed the town on the universal back lot.
01:16And Harper, who had won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel, and it was autobiographical, she was Scout, and I was her father in real life,
01:25came to the set on the opening day, and the scene was, you may recall, when Atticus came home from the courthouse or his office that day.
01:36It was a habit, I think, for the kids to run down to the corner, and the boy grabbed his briefcase,
01:44and they walked down the street together talking until they got to their house.
01:47And we were doing that little scene, and while we were doing it, I glanced across the street, behind the camera, I saw Harper.
01:59And I saw that her cheeks were glistening.
02:04And I thought, well, we're just tearing her up, we're just breaking her heart, we must be marvelous in this scene.
02:11So I walked over to her, and I said, Harper, I think I saw some tears on your cheeks out of the corner of my eye while we were playing that scene.
02:19She said, oh, Gregory, you've got a little potbelly just like my daddy.
02:31So we got off to a good start.
02:33Thank you.