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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
What Steven has to say is more important than what he looks like saying it.
GOOD INTERVIEW.
If Soderbergh likes brilliant standup comics so much, I know a particularly AWESOME one he can put in his next flick.
I think to be labelled a standup comic, you have to actually do standup comedy. OUTSIDE of your apartment.
Oh, and: somebody’s getting artsy.
Wow Soderbergh has a great voice. Who knew. I mean that is a charismatic voice. That’s like some hot bread fresh from the parisian baker. I would like to see his face though.
I’m pretty sure this is the only place you will even hear Steven’s voice on this film.
He doesn’t want to be on camera anymore, as it interferes with his anonymity on the streets of NY. So I pitched this idea to him and he wore great shoes.
I assume that it’s better than looking at my mug for 30 minutes, listening to him.
Any time with Steven is always a pleasure and I am always a little surprised by how forthcoming he is, considering how private a person he is. But for better or for worse, video is now the exclusive form I work in for interviews. I am pleased to have gotten this and look forward to finding new ways of shooting him without showing his face in the years to come.
Let me recommend a little innovation I call the paper bag.
Understandable. And he does have a compelling voice, I wasn’t joking.
“He doesn’t want to be on camera anymore, as it interferes with his anonymity on the streets of NY.”
Why doesn’t he just do interviews as Peter Andrews?
My guess is that Peter Andrews would not be impressed by this framing.
what’s wrong with the framing? it’s all about the shoes. i like it
He should just wear Groucho glasses like the parents in TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN…
If Soderbergh would rather not be on camera, this might be the perfect opportunity to PROVIDE AN AUDIO FILE hint hint hint.
Click through, Eric… it’s there… just for you!!!
At last! You are a man among men. Downloading it now.