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In Australia, I think, there's so much baggage with it. You just mention 'Snowtown,' and everyone's got an opinion about it.

I'd said no to directing 'Snowtown' a few times and was quite scared of it, but I saw a story there that was worth telling.

With 'Snowtown,' you either love it or you hate it; there's no middle ground. So I've come to understand and appreciate that's the kind of film that it is.

'Ice Cold' is the eighth in my 'Rizzoli and Isles' thriller series. It was inspired by a true occurrence in the 1960s, now known as the 'Dugway Incident,' in which 6,000 sheep mysteriously died overnight in a remote area of Utah. I thought, 'What if it happened instead to people? What if the inhabitants of an entire village vanished overnight?'

It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in.

I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.

It rained a lot in New Hampshire, and when I skied, the snow was icy and hard, and the mountains were small.

I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.