[Having Redford -- whom Spragg called] Bob ... perfect for the role, and I think he's given the performance of a lifetime. |
And I'd rush back to the house and sit down at the computer and knock out a first draft of a Roy chapter and just collapse in those evenings, because it was -- I hate to admit it -- opening up some shadow side of myself and immersing myself there for that moment, |
Certainly all of our lives are unfinished, ... how they must learn to forgive what they perceive as wrong in their life, whether that wrong was committed by other people or by some form of cosmology. |
Fruit of Stone. |
I don't own the personal hubris to assume that any book I'm writing is going to get published, |
I think for both of us, and, hopefully, for all of us, we wonder, 'Do the dead view us? Do they forgive us our sins? Do they accept us? Do they shepherd us? ... So that aspect was in the book and the film, both. |
It started out very innocently for us, ... In the first place, you don't imagine you're ever really going to sell the novel to anyone or really sell the screenplay to anyone. |
The USA justice system has a long and aggressive extra- territorial reach and will increasingly apply for the extradition of U.K. citizens for allegedly criminal conduct committed against U.K. institutions. There appear to be no legal protections against this at all. |
This is one crowd I really don't want to disappoint. |
To have this advance screening in Cody truly means a lot to me, |
We know everyone here, ... We won't know anyone in New York. |
When I look at the film, unlike when you see it, I'll be thinking of the scenes that were cut, |
Write a lot and read a lot and expect to give over your life completely to the passion of writing, ... I think if people are not willing to do that, they are forever doomed to be amateurs. |