:20:02
- You need all the inspiration you can get.
- Go fly a kite, will you, sweetheart?
:20:06
- Had your breakfast yet?
- And lunch.
:20:08
- And lunch? What time is it?
- After 3:00.
:20:10
No wonder I'm so hungry.
I've been at this thing since 4:00.
:20:13
- I can't get it right.
- And you won't.
:20:15
Look, Marcia whatever-your-name-is...
:20:17
would it hurt your career
if you kind of cleaned up the joint?
:20:20
My talent doesn't lie in that direction.
:20:23
You haven't got any talent.
You don't have any talent.
:20:26
I don't? You see, he gets lucky
with a couple of books...
:20:29
all of a sudden,
he's an important American writer.
:20:32
I am an important American writer.
:20:34
The critics said that he wrote with
facile ease, but he hasn't got a thing to say.
:20:38
The critics. I eat them
like the pieces of cheese they are.
:20:41
He's dying because they pan his books.
It kills him.
:20:45
Yeah, I cry all the way to the bank, okay?
:20:48
All right, now go someplace
and practice your fast draw.
:20:51
- We're all out of Holland gin.
- And I can understand it.
:20:55
Got to get rid of that miserable lush.
:20:59
I'd like to go over those sketches with you.
:21:01
Lot of laughs, that kid.
Sit down and have something to drink.
:21:04
No, thanks. Let's get to work. I got
a few appointments with some builders.
:21:08
Did you have trouble reading the sketches?
:21:09
- No, I read them fine.
- Good.
:21:13
It's pretty different from the house
I saw in the magazine, isn't it?
:21:16
You didn't expect the same house, did you?
:21:18
I don't know what I expected.
:21:20
You're the architect,
you've said so often enough.
:21:24
What's the matter with you all of a sudden?
:21:27
Nothing.
:21:28
No, there's something eating you.
What is it, Rog?
:21:32
I showed your sketches
to some friends of mine.
:21:35
They said I'd have to be nuts
to live in a house like that.
:21:38
Who's going to live in it,
you or your friends?
:21:40
That's not the point.
:21:42
Nobody lives in a vacuum.
:21:43
I don't want people pointing
to this oddball house:
:21:46
"That's where that kooky writer lives."
:21:48
What do you want?
A house like everybody else's?
:21:50
The house in the magazine
wasn't like everyone else's.
:21:52
I designed that house
for a Fresno lawyer with kids.
:21:55
This house is for you.
:21:56
Sure. What if I have to get rid of it?
Suppose my next book flops?
:21:59
And the book after that? What do I do then?
Wait for a 36-year-old writer...