met sally, and she got a lot of help from reiner creating the neurotic main character. that s because he was based on rob reiner. every scene has to be good. you work and work and work, you torture yourself rewriting a script. i d known nora and i pitched this idea for this film about the dance that people go through to get together after they ve both gotten out of long-term relationships, and they become friends, and does sex come into the picture? and if it does, does it ruin the friendship? and she said, well, that s something i would be interested in. he rips off my clothes. then what happens? that s it. that s it? a faceless guy rips off your clothes and that s the sex fantasy you ve been having since you were 12? exactly the same. well, sometimes i vary it a little. which part? what i m wearing. a good romantic comedy is, listen, you know they re gonna be together. so how do you get them there? and what s the road blocks? it s all about the story and it s
a very, you know, thin thumbnail sketch of what was going to happen. the whole movie is improvised. do the dead bird. get the dwarf cannolis, the little ones. i did the bird. don t talk back. huh? mime is money, let s go, move it! you had all these brilliant performances by all of them, and then rob put it all together and made it sing. people didn t know what we were doing. they thought it was a real documentary. when we first previewed it, people saw it, they said why would you make a movie about a band nobody ever heard of, and one that s so bad? working on a sex farm plowing through your bean field let s say you look at a prospective movie and it s a square, rob reiner has a way of turning it sideways, looking at it differently, and finding a way to enjoy it in a completely nonconventional way. he didn t fall? inconceivable. you keep using that word. i do not think it means that you think it means.
with woody, he s constantly getting, you know, shit on by life and he s just doing the right thing. you look very deep in thought. i was plotting the perfect murder. his writing is very strong for that reason. it always feels like he was thinking about some philosophical truth about human nature and says, oh, i want to write a movie about that. i m talking about reality. i mean, if you want a happy ending, you should go see a hollywood movie. you realize, of course, that we can never be friends. why not? what i m saying is and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form is that men and women can t be friends because the sex part always gets in the way. nora ephron wrote when harry met sally and got a lot of help from reiner creating the neurotic main character. that s because he was based on rob reiner. every scene has to be good. you work and work and work, torture yourself rewriting the
i want to see you i want to see you in the purple rain what do you care about mark ratner for? he s a 16-year-old usher in the movie theater. you have dated older guys. you work at the best food stand in the mall and you re a close, personal friend of mine. there was so much reality in the script to fast times . the way that cameron wrote fast times at ridgemont high is that he went back to high school. i never graduated traditionally. so the idea was i could go back and have the senior year that i didn t have and write about what it is to be a high school student. i learned so much. the pop culture establishment, they don t know what s happening with kids right now. stacy, what are you waiting for? you re 15 years old. i did it when i was 13. it s no huge thing. it s just sex. these kids are having a super
preferences. stephen sodderberg s sex, lies and videotape is a coming-out party for one of the most prodigiously talented filmmakers ever. why are you doing this to yourself? are you going to answer me? no, please, don t do that? why not? why not? i just want to ask you a few questions. why do you tape women talking about sex, huh? that was a great example of something that was totally brand-new and it was very, very low budget and i felt it was so special. and it was a point of view that we just hadn t seen before. to deal openly with voyeurism and sexual dysfunction on screen screen was stunning to people and it was a trendsetter then and it s a movie that mattered a lot. his first film was blood simple, which was a cross between a slasher film and a