It was also the work of a man who, though only 52 when it hit the bookshops, was almost physically and emotionally shot, a man who, had his body held out, might have lived into his 80s to produce half a dozen more novels to which the epithet "great Australian" could just as easily have been applied.
The ballads, in particular "Hurt So Bad" and "Goin' Out of My Head," have an operatic heft; emotionally they shoot the moon.
She and her co-star David Duchovny are closer than ever – in the old days they used to drive each other a bit mad – but still, it was an "emotionally complicated" shoot for the simple reason that it meant being away from home for so long.
But that's part of what this record is about, getting up and getting free of the chains that bind you, creatively... emotionally... shoot... physically if it came to it I guess.
For starters, Spielberg's attention was more than just elsewhere: it was in Auschwitz, since he was editing Jurassic Park during the emotionally trying shoot for Schindler's List.
Mitchell said that "it was emotionally draining shooting this episode" because she was intimidated by Emerson and Matthew Fox's acting skills.
She recalled that her father never fully recovered emotionally after shooting and killing a suspect while on patrol.
The parts of the movie that are difficult to watch were even more difficult -- and emotionally taxing -- to shoot".
She was emotionally drained after shooting "21 Grams," a gut-wrenching drama about suffering and death.
"There were severe transitions that I put myself through physically and emotionally… I shot it when I was 27, and that was my real awakening and entrance into adulthood, that responsibility, and awareness of my own good fortune that I had taken for granted".
Despite an atmosphere of simmering violence and criminal wrongdoing, "Boatman" is more art film than action film; deliberately paced, skillfully shot, emotionally challenging.
