Omega Rising: Remembering Joe D'Amato Page #5

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His strength was to manage, to have

everybody liking him.

He could have managed to work

with any distributor.

All of them would have given him money for a film,

but he didn't have to be the one directing it too.

You are principally a director of

photography. You are not a director.

Yes, sometimes you make some nice shots, but

they are shots that you copy from other films...

...you don't use a shot because you've understood

that it works dramatically in that scene.

Sometimes you do a shot that works in that

context but not in the one you need it for.

I tried to make him understand this

reasoning a couple of times

but he was too scared to put himself

in other people's hands.

He preferred staying in the smaller leagues

but having everything under his control.

This doesn't pay off in

the long run.

Then he had a breakdown.

You know that when he came back from

the States, on his last trip...

they had lost all his reels,

creating a huge problem for him.

That was the principal cause

of his heart attack.

Poor thing. I was so sorry...

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