Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.
I was always taken by the - by the love story part of it. A story about one guy's desperation to connect to one person.
If you're massively talented, you can intuit the way people think and behave who have absolutely nothing to do with your life.
In the kiddie movies that are made today - I am being condescending - almost everyone talks like everyone else all the time.
It certainly made a film writing career for me.
We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
We're always bemoaning the fact that there are great directors around who haven't made a decent film in 20 years, or writers who have ran out of stuff, but I don't think it's that so much as they simply lose their ear - or maybe their ey - because they haven't been looking and listening.
What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometimes producers just lose their edge because they haven't seen anybody or talked to anybody or been with anybody who isn't a kind of replica of themselves for a long period of time.
You know, we're voyeurs and eavesdroppers, and if everyone is voyeuring and eavesdropping on what's being said at Spago, you're not going to get a lot of really good material.
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
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