Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and

James Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never

know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom, so bear that in mind when you hear

the audio. If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing pod.po

od at rogerdeakens.com. Today we have the pleasure of talking with a production designer with

whom we've had the pleasure of working. He has a great range of work that we're looking forward

to talking about. We're happy to welcome Don Burt with us today. Don, thank you for doing

this. Thanks Don. Thanks so much for having me. I really appreciate it. We'd like to start with

the question how you got to where you are today. What was your past? Did you have another

past that you went down and then found this or did you always know from a child that you

wanted to build sets? What's your story? I don't think I've ever had a past in life to be honest

with you. Especially when I was a child. I was grew up in a small town in the Midwest and

very small town. Probably the size of two or three blocks where you live to be honest with

you. Truly sort of a William Eglson world if it could just be like that. I went away to

college. I got a scholarship to study art. I always wanted to be involved in art and actually

that was my dream to somehow do something in art, not necessarily film. I quite honestly

didn't grow up in a world where I was exposed to much film. I remember distinctly the one

movie saying as a child because of where I grew up was in cold blood. I probably didn't sleep

for six months after seeing that. I can imagine. We watched that the other night again because it's

one of my favorite movies. It's hard to sleep off to sing. It is, especially when you grow up in

Kansas. I migrated to college at Arizona State University and this was in the 70s and

I majored in art and it was a very open-minded sort of experimental art department there that

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