Petit, Philippe

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For example, everyone knows of Philippe Petit, the man who walked on the tightrope between the Twin Towers. What I didn t... 

Six months ago, if someone had said, "Will you interview Philippe Petit " I would have said, "Probably." But luck is a residue of design. The design comes from that intuitive conviction that the story is powerful, and from the themes that you articulate on the basis of that conviction. That design then allows you to go out in the world and chance, so to speak, upon all sorts of elements interviewees, places that you might shoot, quotes from a book, episodes of the history that you knew nothing about. And that s why that interplay between obsessiveness and decisiveness is so crucial. 

How did your collaboration with Philippe Petit come about ... 

Philippe Petit, in Mon on Wire, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. 

Man on Wire Produced by Simon Chinn directed by James Marsh based on the book To Reach the Clouds by Philippe Petit edited by Jinx Godfirey. 

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