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Hey folks, welcome to the projection booth.

I'm your host, Mike White.

On this special episode, I'm talking with Andrew Birkin.

This is the remainder of our interview.

I spoke with him quite a few years ago, about 2001, a space odyssey, as well as perfume, the story of a murder.

This is the rest of the interview. He talks a little bit about the name of the rose,

the cement garden, Burning Secret, his intro into the world of filmmaking, all kinds of good stuff.

Thank you for listening, and I hope you enjoy this interview.

You have worn so many different hats in your career. You've done work on cruise, editorial,

location management, production management, so many different things. But you, I would think,

are primarily known these days as a writer and a director.

And I was curious how you moved from all of those different things into the writing.

There was never a plan.

As Napoleon said, I just went which way the wind blew.

I only got into movies in the first place because when I was 13 or 14, I was at boarding

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