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Here is some more of what he had to say about his dat- ing/movie making experience. JN: Your film has a nice, breezy feel- ing and really does seem as if you caught something as it was happen- ing. How difficult did it turn out to be to make it look so effortless? MB: It took us a year in the editing room to take 120 hours of footage and piece together a story, and I had two really talented editors. We knew the basic story because it really happened, but it took us a year to make a movie that you would be interested in watch- ing because who cares what Myles Berkowitz is like on a date? The only way you care is if we tell the story in a funny, entertaining way that you can identify with and say, "Hey, that reminds me of me." JN: When you were starting to go on these dates, what was the criteria for the women you would be dating? MB: Anyone who would go out with me. I was very tough about that. If you weren't going to go out with me, then damn it, I wasn't going to go out with you. JN: Did you have it in mind to specifically date Jewish women? MB: Well, 'I was already in my early 30s, I had already been married, and I will tell you that it wasn't as big an issue for me at that point in my life as it was earlier. Probably because when you're in your 30s and single, you're facing a life of being alone and suddenly some of your requirements aren't as important to you anymore. Even though religion is a very impor- tant requirement, I was more con- cerned, as many people my age are, with finding someone that I could fall in love with. JN: How did your marketing degree help you in 20 Dates? MB: I realized that there were hundreds of movies made by studios and inde- pendent companies every year and I felt from a marketing perspective I had to make a movie that would be so unique that it would stand out from a business standpoint to a company, and then to the media, and then to audiences. JN: 20 Dates isn't strictly a documen- tary. Do you have a phrase to describe it? MB: It's a screwball/romantic comedy that documents dating, single life and guerilla filmmaking. I think that's the most accurate way to describe it. It's the first romantic docu-comedy. I cre- ated my own genre there. JN: Would you qualify 20 Dates as a date movie? MB: Absolutely. Because people who hate dating, or have nightmares about how they were on dates, or are living through the horrors of dating can go see this movie, watch me on dates and leave the theater feeling very good about themselves. JN: Do you think 20 Dates is a corn- mentary on romantic illusions? MB: I set out for it to be that, and I contradict my opening premise which is: There's no such thing as a Hollywood ending when it comes to romance. And then, not only do I meet a wonderful woman, but she agrees to go out with me, we fall in love and we're engaged. It's the typical, classic Hollywood ending to this story. I didn't think those existed. So what I started out to prove, I actually disproved, and that sometimes magic does happen in our lives, because it hap- pened in mine. 20 Dates opens today at the Maple Art Theatre. 2