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- Everyone involved in the production uses the same words to describe Prince during the filming process: focused, driven, absorbed, confident. "It felt as inexorable as the progress of a train," says engineer Susan Rogers. "It just felt steady; a slow, steady progress. There was never any doubt in those sessions, not on the movie set, not in the recording studio, not when we were doing the album or when we were doing the incidental music, not when we were doing post-production. He would've been a great general in the army; he has this extraordinary self-confidence, coupled with extraordinary self-discipline and tempered by a really clear self-critical eye. I think he knew himself and what he was capable of. And I think making that movie, on some level, he knew he was dealing his trump cards; … and this was this window of opportunity where he could reveal this enigma, and that maybe that window wouldn't come around again — which, indeed, I don't think it ever did."