IN NO GREAT HURRY - 13 LESSONS IN LIFE WITH SAUL LEITER
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I had a copy of Saul’s stunning book Early Color and couldn’t believe there wasn’t any information about him online.
So I wrote to him and started a collaboration that lasted until his death, and resulted in this film about searching for beauty.
When I flew to NYC to persuade Saul to let me make a film about him, he answered the door with the words ‘why do people always want something from me’, then turned away and chuckled, and I nervously followed him in…
Spending all that time with Saul taught me so much about living as an artist. It was like sitting at the knee of a master who was looking back at his life and putting it all in order with a devilish sense of humour. That was the feeling that I wanted from the film, rough and intimate and never self-important.
He watched the finished cut and didn’t ask me to change anything at all. He said, “I can’t say anything bad about it, that’s me.” Watching him watch the film was wonderful. He would interject, or start chuckling at the screen version of himself, or agree with the words “That’s true!”.
“Neon Poetry”
““Leach stumbles across a subject so compelling that it would be well nigh impossible not to make a film about it.””
“A beautiful film about a lovely man”
