“There were many moments in the film where his character wants to cry, to break, and I just kept saying, ‘No, not now, not here,’” Durkin says. “And so he was keeping it all in, and when we finally got to that final day, he was full of tears. We did 7 takes with the boys. He just kept going, and it was really amazing.”

“Our ancestors left this here for us,” a member of the North Carolina-based Reels family says in the documentary Silver Dollar Road, referring to the 65-acre waterfront property that had long been their financial and spiritual haven.

For me, writing is about a question and then an answer. You’re answering something that you’ve set up. I have to know what that answer is.