It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
The 49% of the country who voted for Bush couldn’t care less about the Oscars or Spirit awards..hell, I know plenty of people who don’t bother to go to the movies if they can help it.
He should focus on making movies. Not trying to tell people who to vote for and make up dumb conspiracy’s that only people that live in Hollywood believe.
Atrios put it best: “The people who voted George Bush and the Republicans into office this year didn’t do so because they were conned by a right-wing asshole posing as a compassionate centrist. They did so precisely because he is a right-wing asshole.” We literally live in a nation where finding and keeping a decent-paying job has become less important than making sure that two women you’ve never met can’t get married. Sigh…
Conspiracy? Are you mad Mark? Those things happened.
Thus the reason we video tape everything in this
society. So, if that’s a conspiracy, red, then
that’s a conspiracy I am all about.
See the film FahrenHype 9-11. Explains it all. All Moores lies exposed. Hes the worst kind of documentary filmmaker. He has an idea and its his idea and conceit and he stops at nothing to try and “prove” it.
don’t even bother mark. lib’s are too dumb to see both sides and get the real truth.
Oh, David.
Your gleeful wait for Moore to show his face strikes me as no different then Moore’s own gleeful wait for a new Bush quotation to pull apart.
Moore’s eventual response turned out to be more heartfelt and rational and less histrionic than yours.
This is a first.
Color me disappointed.
what was heartfelt about it? tell his fat arse to move to canada already.
Gee, Bob, do you realize you have contradicted yourself?
“tell his fat arse to move to canada already” followed “lib’s are too dumb to see both sides and get the real truth.”
So, Bob, is it that we should leave the country if we disagree with you? Does that mean you are too dumb to listen to both sides of an issue?
All you’ve been offering up is insults of liberals.