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Article: Pic turns N.Y. into 'Sunshine' state.(Celebrate New York Tribute)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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Of all the movies I've written," says Charlie Kaufman, '"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' might have the strongest sense of place." With many of the locations in the film preserved from the original script, keeping the production in New York was key for Kaufman (a New York native) and French director Michel Gondry. Despite usual budgetary pressure to consider shooting elsewhere, the creative duo didn't have to put up much of a fight to convince a largely homegrown production team raised on low-budget indies that the picture be shot in Gotham.
"It was important that the depiction of memories were very real rather than romanticized," says Gondry, who'd only ...