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Was there a reason, other than the fact you're familiar with the area, that you wanted to focus on this subject? Do you have an interest in vampires or was it just the fact this sounded like an interesting story?
York Baur: "Well I think it’s a mixture of my long-term interest. Long before the Twilight phenomena was a gleam in anyone’s eye I had an interest in giving back to and trying to help and expose that area, because of my own personal passion for it and the people that are there. That was certainly the strongest component. But then the second thing was my connection to my own family – my wife and my daughter. I have a 15 year old daughter, and my wife got into the saga and my daughter was reading the saga so we had a connection within the family that intersected perfectly with my personal passion for the Forks area. So that really was the deal."
"The saga idea did not start with me because it’s not a particularly guy-centric thing. But I remember the night that my wife said, 'Hey, you know I'm reading this book and it takes place in Forks.' And I'm like, 'Really?' So, you know, the rest is history I guess."
Have you had any contact with Stephenie Meyer?
York Baur: "No, we've had none. I don't know if it’s commonly known, but she is taking a year off."
I heard that.
York Baur: "Yes, and we certainly wanted to respect her privacy there, so we've not spoken to her. However, in our film there are a number of folks in Forks that have spoken to her, worked with her when she was there. And there's actually one - and I’ll just kind of leave it out there as a teaser - but there's even someone that was unknowingly involved in her writing of the story itself early on. I think there's going to be plenty for the fans to enjoy and some things that certainly the fans wouldn't know about the history of Stephenie and Forks itself."
I'm from Southern California and we don't get much rain here. I've wondered if it affects peoples' personalities when the climate is so dreary?
York Baur: "Well I certainly haven't noticed anything in a weird way, but what I will tell you is this, I think the rain is a metaphor for the closeness to nature because you can't avoid the closeness to nature when it’s touching your body, right? So I will tell you that universally, no matter who you are out there and no matter what your occupation etc, whether you're a transplant or a native, there's a sense of a closeness to nature there that I personally find doesn't exist anywhere else. It’s a function of both the beauty and the uniqueness of the nature there. I mean when you get 10 feet of rain, which is what Forks gets, 10 feet of rain a year, there isn't any place else in the lower 48, which is by the way why Stephenie chose Forks, as you probably know. So when you combine that with the remoteness, I don't think everyone fully appreciates how remote Forks is. And in fact one of the things that you may have seen us quoted on in the MTV stuff was that Forks is actually closer to outer space than it is to the nearest Wal-Mart. It is really remote. You've got to drive an hour and a half before you're in any sort of town and, and that's Port Angeles, population 15,000 or so. So it's just extremely remote, and when you combine that with the closeness to nature, I think that’s what permeates people's lives. And so it’s not that it affects them in any negative sense, but I do think it affects them in that way, in the closeness to the environment that they're in."
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York Baur: "Well I think it’s a mixture of my long-term interest. Long before the Twilight phenomena was a gleam in anyone’s eye I had an interest in giving back to and trying to help and expose that area, because of my own personal passion for it and the people that are there. That was certainly the strongest component. But then the second thing was my connection to my own family – my wife and my daughter. I have a 15 year old daughter, and my wife got into the saga and my daughter was reading the saga so we had a connection within the family that intersected perfectly with my personal passion for the Forks area. So that really was the deal."
"The saga idea did not start with me because it’s not a particularly guy-centric thing. But I remember the night that my wife said, 'Hey, you know I'm reading this book and it takes place in Forks.' And I'm like, 'Really?' So, you know, the rest is history I guess."
Have you had any contact with Stephenie Meyer?
York Baur: "No, we've had none. I don't know if it’s commonly known, but she is taking a year off."
I heard that.
York Baur: "Yes, and we certainly wanted to respect her privacy there, so we've not spoken to her. However, in our film there are a number of folks in Forks that have spoken to her, worked with her when she was there. And there's actually one - and I’ll just kind of leave it out there as a teaser - but there's even someone that was unknowingly involved in her writing of the story itself early on. I think there's going to be plenty for the fans to enjoy and some things that certainly the fans wouldn't know about the history of Stephenie and Forks itself."
I'm from Southern California and we don't get much rain here. I've wondered if it affects peoples' personalities when the climate is so dreary?
York Baur: "Well I certainly haven't noticed anything in a weird way, but what I will tell you is this, I think the rain is a metaphor for the closeness to nature because you can't avoid the closeness to nature when it’s touching your body, right? So I will tell you that universally, no matter who you are out there and no matter what your occupation etc, whether you're a transplant or a native, there's a sense of a closeness to nature there that I personally find doesn't exist anywhere else. It’s a function of both the beauty and the uniqueness of the nature there. I mean when you get 10 feet of rain, which is what Forks gets, 10 feet of rain a year, there isn't any place else in the lower 48, which is by the way why Stephenie chose Forks, as you probably know. So when you combine that with the remoteness, I don't think everyone fully appreciates how remote Forks is. And in fact one of the things that you may have seen us quoted on in the MTV stuff was that Forks is actually closer to outer space than it is to the nearest Wal-Mart. It is really remote. You've got to drive an hour and a half before you're in any sort of town and, and that's Port Angeles, population 15,000 or so. So it's just extremely remote, and when you combine that with the closeness to nature, I think that’s what permeates people's lives. And so it’s not that it affects them in any negative sense, but I do think it affects them in that way, in the closeness to the environment that they're in."