Crossing the Line
Writer-director Matthew Ryan Hoge on The United States of Leland
By Jennifer M. Wood
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/directing/article/crossing_the_line_2612/
Finding success as a first-time writer-director is hard—unless you have Kevin Spacey in your camp. With only two indie features under his belt (and both of them incomplete), writer-director Matthew Ryan Hoge was able to persuade Spacey and his Trigger Street production company of his talent and desire to step behind the camera on the very personal The United States of Leland.