Congrats on the well deserved Emmy nod for Season One of 'The Walking Dead' – my one question would be having taken 'The Walking Dead' due in big part to your long relationship with Director Frank Darabont and loving his cinematic vision, does the job have the same passion for you now that he’s no longer with the show?
GN: Listen, I’ve been best friends with Frank for eighteen years, but I love the show. I love the actors. I mean get to go to work everyday with Jon Bernthal and Andy Lincoln and Sarah Wayne Callies and Laurie Holden and that fantastic cast and I get to go to work with that crew every day. But I tell you, I’ve done eight hundred projects and I would put the crew and the cast of 'The Walking Dead' up against any of them – it’s the best group of people I’ve ever worked for. I get to work with Gale Anne Hurd and some of the best directors on the planet and I’m really proud of it. But I’m really proud of what Frank created - because Frank created the show. He laid the groundwork for it and cast all these actors and had a big hand in it. So it was a horrible moment when Frank wasn’t on the show anymore and I still miss his contribution because Frank’s contribution to 'The Walking Dead' was significant. I love the show so much and it is what it is because of what Frank did. You had a bunch of really dedicated people who want the show to be great and would fight for the show to be great – we’re all in that boat. What’s funny is we’re coming to a sort of mid-season hiatus on Sunday and the fact that I can’t talk about the last six episodes will drive me insane because the show – the second half – is so fantastic that I really can't wait for people to see it. It goes to so many great places and the actors have so much great stuff to do. I’m so excited about it, aside from one of the episodes I directed...
You actually directed an upcoming episode?
GN: It was one of the greatest experiences in my career and to be able to direct that cast and have the crew behind me going, ‘Dude, anything you need’ – it was amazing. I had a great script and I had a fantastic episode. I had eight days to shoot my episode and it was the most rewarding time of my career. To be able to stand there behind the camera and direct Norman Reedus and direct Andy Lincoln and direct Jeff DeMunn and to work with these people and collaborate with them on a different level – it’s a very rare opportunity that I’ve been given. Because I’m a make-up effects guy who’s been made a Co-Executive Producer and I directed second unit for six months, I directed my own episode, so I’m proud that my finger prints are on that show.
Source: Full interview @ Starpulse
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