'If I was God' by Cordell Barker

Filmmaker (Minour: Memory in Exile), Producer (Sunday, Me and My Moulton, If I was God), Executive Producer and toting pops, Michael Fukushima agreed to meet me whilst cycling around (and around) Rowan Oak in Oxford, Mississippi in late September of 1897.

I get the greatest pleasure from....

Really? That’s kind of personal isn’t it? But clearly it’s skis and bikes. And long, hot baths. I do love long, hot baths.

The trait I like least about myself is

My outgoing friendliness. I’m working on being more enigmatic, or maybe just aloof. But not a lufa.

The book I value above all others is

The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, for what it reminded me about the fragility of life. Followed closely by As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner, for what it taught me about storytelling.

A (non-family member) person I have high respect for is....   because… 

Serious one. My former exec, and mentor, David Verrall. For better or worse, I am the producer and exec I am today because of his tutelage.

The song that makes me tingle is....

I thought it said “tinkle”, so I had a completely different answer.

The funniest thing that happened to me….

Discovering that I have an almost perfect doppelganger (except for the physique, of course) in Japanese pro wrestler, The Great Muta (google him). Oh, and at this last Annecy festival, a mid-aged Canadian gentleman, maybe a titch older than me, gingerly approached me at a resto and asked if I was David Suzuki. It’s an interesting compliment, for sure, but Suzuki’s got a FULL and THICK head of curly hair. Steven Woloshen and Julie Roy can verify this incident.