Even though Jonathan Demme has an Academy award to his credit, Oprah Winfrey wasn't sure he could direct her screen adaptation of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Beloved."
"At first, I thought this film needed an African-American (director), then a woman," the talk show host said. "Finally, I recognized that what it needed was someone who had the creativity, the imagination, the tools to make it work. And Jonathan's prints are all over this film."*****
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