time to reimagine west side story. how evident are stephen sondheim s talents in yourfilm? because in a way it must be very tough for you right now, you must miss him being with you as you launch your film. it was devastating, it is still devastating. we are still not. i am still not really accustomed to not being able to text him and e mail him and compare movie trivia to the 19s0s films. i mean, stephen was a tremendous cineaste and on the scale of martin scorsese and del toro, that kind of a cineaste, as i have been all my life and for all his great work work in the nonlinear, linear musical stage, he is a genius. i miss him for being able to compare movies. you know, the originalfilm, the 1961 film, had puerto rican characters played by white actors.