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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
LOOOOOOK AT HER!!!!
Best DP/30 opener ever.
Serious question: did you do that for Lex?
the best compliment i can pay her for her work in Ides of March was not realizing it was Evan Rachel Wood until the credits. I had no idea.
DP sure went crazy with the amount of questions – more than most dp/30’s
last 5 minutes she talks about singing
Evan Rachel Wood sings Justin Bieber
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M-uiUj-VfA
Is that “shoe shot” a first for a DP/30? I mean, it’s the first time I can recall there ever having been a cut in the interview. And it’s in continuity.
As you know, I am always looking for something interesting and off-beat as the opening tag. I’d noticed the shoes and the showstopping outfit before we shot and mentioned it. It was a look that made putting her behind a table seem like a sin against beauty. (you can see the whole ensemble on Chelsea Lately… not sure when it aired/airs)
This clip is actually pulled from after we stopped shooting. I don’t think the cameraman was behind the camera at that moment, so the shot was static. And when I pulled the clip, I just felt you couldn’t see how cool the shoes were. So I make the cut to the push-in. Truth be told, you still can’t see how cool the shoes were. Shinier in person.
And that’s the story. (Thought of Lex while I was doing it… but didn’t do it for him at all.)
The other possible clip for the opening was one in which she made a charming, funny face. But it felt like it was floating between sentences… and it was… and I wasn’t going to include the off-record sentences… so I decided to look for something else and found the shoe moment.
And there are a few cuts over the last few years. If it takes too long to recover from something that happened in the room, I’ll make an edit. Natalie Portman has two, for instance, for fire alarms.
If something, like a phone or a noise or whatever, is quick, I’ll leave it it. It’s part of the viewer’s experience with that person.
I like how comfortable with herself she is and how obviously smart and awesome… Just based on “coolness,” she might even be cooler than Kristen Stewart.
And not just because I think she’s smoking and whatnot, but IS Sony considering an FYC campaign for her for Supporting for IDES? I think it’s one of the year’s best female performances (and movies)… They need to push her for it a little bit, see if it gains some momentum.
And, yeah, her chemistry with Gosling is DELIGHTFUL in the early going.
Gosling has ridiculous chemistry with everybody – Wood, Stone, Williams, Mulligan, and Dunst in the last year alone. In fact, I’m not sure who in his age range is left for him to gaze at longingly.