:43:01
Maybe after I sell a
screenplay.
:43:03
Film is where it's at.
:43:05
Who reads books anymore?
Not young kids.
:43:08
- They're into cinema, movies.
- I don't believe that. Nor do you.
:43:11
Why are you getting dressed?
:43:13
Going home. Isn't
that what you want?
:43:17
I don't know what I want.
:43:20
You're the only one who makes
sense to me since my divorce.
:43:24
I don't want someone
to make sense to.
:43:27
I want someone to get
irrational over me.
:43:29
Maybe after I sell my armoured
car robbery script...
:43:33
I'll get back to
something more serious.
:43:36
Philip's having a dinner next
week. I'd love you to come.
:43:39
Philip Datloff?
:43:41
- He's sweet. You'll like him.
- I'd be too intimidated.
:43:45
An editor of his stature? I'd
feel guilty I wasn't writing.
:43:49
- I want you two to meet.
- I won't know what to say.
:43:54
So what's your novel about?
:43:55
- I don't have a novel, it's more...
- No, he does, he does.
:43:59
Been working on
it for over a year.
:44:02
- From what I've seen, it's terrific.
- Bonnie is a gifted editor.
:44:05
- I know this.
- I'm grooming her for my job.
:44:07
I didn't have the emotional
energy to finish it.
:44:09
And how many people read it?
Do a film, and it reaches millions.
:44:13
It's not energy, it's confidence.
:44:16
- His first two books...
- Were obliterated. The 3 S's.
:44:19
Self-indulgent, sophomoric,
solipsistic.
:44:22
If every writer who got bad press
at first caved in...
:44:25
You're too thin-skinned.
:44:26
My God, it's V.J. Rajnipal.
:44:29
- Excuse me.
- Philip's his editor.
:44:30
What am I doing here? That guy
won the Nobel and deserved...
:44:35
I'm out of my league.
Awash in self-contempt.
:44:39
You know Irwin Shaw wrote
the best anti-war play ever...
:44:42
and got it all into one act?
:44:44
Interesting you should say
that, he was my idol.
:44:47
At high school I read "The
Eighty Yard Run."
:44:49
And I wept. Cried in class.
:44:53
That story made
me want to write.
:44:55
That and some
pieces by Saroyan.
:44:57
You love him too?
:44:59
Amazing! I love the plays
and the essays.