In 2016, director Morgan Neville began the official production of the documentary "Won't You Be My Neighbor?". Before filming, Morgan Neville also visited the Fred Rogers Center in Pittsburgh, where he spent a day browsing the materials to better understand where the story was going. Morgan Neville and Fred Rogers' wife Joanne had a lengthy discussion. Morgan Neville didn't want to make the project a Fred Rogers biopic, he was going to make a film about Fred Rogers' thoughts. Morgan Neville's idea was supported by Joanne, who provided him with plenty of material about Fred Rogers
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Won't You Be My Neighbor? background creation
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Extended Reading
Won't You Be My Neighbor? quotes
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Himself - Fred Rogers Center Director: "What would Fred Rogers do"? It's not a question that you can answer. The most important question is, "What are you going to do?"
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Fred Rogers: [at his piano] Come on over a minute. I just had some ideas that I've been thinking about for quite while about modulation. It seems to me that there are different themes in life, and one of my main jobs, it seems to me, is to help, through the mass media for children, to help children through some of the difficult modulations of life.