From the Gloucester Daily Times-
Joann Mackenzie Staff Writer
Gloucester’s Sarah Green is talking on the phone from her Los Angeles office about the film that all of L.A. seems to be talking about, Terrence Malick’s new cosmic epic, “The Tree of Life.”
“You have to see this film with your heart, not your head,” says Green, who co-produced the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or winner. “If you see it with your heart, you will see so much more. You will see yourself, for one thing.”
Growing up in Rockport in the 1970s, Green says she had no clue how she saw herself.
“I was drawn to the arts, but didn’t see myself as having the talent to be an artist,” says the veteran producer, whose artistic sympatico with iconoclastic directors became the hallmark of her career. “I was good at math, so oddly enough, I went to school for engineering in Boston (Northeastern University) because math and engineering seemed to make sense.”
Once in Boston, Green found herself more drawn to its film culture than to engineering.
“I was seeing everything and going back to films I loved again and again and again,” she says.
It was, she says, an awakening to realize that filmmaking was her passion.
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