Principal and Location photography has wrapped

"...however you live,
There's a part of you always standing by,
Mapping out the sky,
Finishing a hat...
Starting on a hat..
Finishing a hat...
Look, I made a hat...
Where there never was a hat..."

We are finished filming. All thats left is wrap... Releases, Purchase Orders, tracking down final Invoices...

My first time out as the big boss was everything I was afraid of... All encompassing, ridiculously difficult, satisfying, invigorating, maddening, dangerous, exhausting, scary... amusing, terrifying, and finally, finally financially closer to what I deserve to be paid.

Glad it's over, though. I'm proud of the job my department did. Proud of the team. We scouted, put under contract and managed as we filmed some very unique, unusual and difficult locations. And nobody died doing it. Lost a lot of sleep over it though.

Now it's time to take a week or two to put the papers in order to back up the hoops we all jumped through to get this flick made. Focus Features and Universal Pictures will appreciate our careful wrap. We will appreciate the 8 to 10 hour work days.

We filmed at a State owned Mental Institution that was miraculous in many ways. I adored their road signs 'on campus'. Their stop signs say "STOP! in the name of life". Of course, someone changed the sign by the entrance, changing life to love.