“Just try new things. I mean, my whole life has been fun because I was willing to try writing screenplays, try writing a novel, try lecturing on the brain. Don’t be timid about it. Go for it. You can do it…also, you will want to give up many times....
“And I said, I don’t know any editor. The only editor I’ve ever heard of is Jacqueline Onassis, and he said, she might be interested in this. And so he submitted the proposal to her…and that was it. The first time I went to her...
“I’m looking at this script, LBJ, as my whole career rests on the outcome of this, whether or not it becomes a movie. And Bryan Cranston is lurking in the shadows making what becomes a Tony-winning play. And we’re just thinking, he’s killing...
“…learning how to take what I did in screenwriting and put it in picture books…it’s such a similar media, really, with the pictures and the visuals…having to have those work well together and the magic that happens between those two...
“Buddy, who, you all know as Patrick Swayze, he’s the one who trained me in the dances…. I spent days and days dancing with him….I was in heaven. So I just felt so plugged into the film that I sort of went past doing any character work, and I...
