If You Can Get Out

This Is Not A Movie About Smelling The Urine! It's Another Kind Of Movie." Volker Schlöndorff Got Billy Wilder To Agree To These Conversations - You Can Buy It - Because Volker Spoke German At Times. And He Said To Billy Wilder: "what Is In Your Mind?" And He Said: "if You're Going To Try To Tell The Truth To The Audience, You'd Better Be Funny Or They'll Kill You." And I Haven't Forgotten That.

The Trumpet Player, Ronnie Hughes, Has Still Got His Chops Today But For Some Strange Reason The Culture Doesn't Call Him Because He's 83-years-old. And These People Are In Their 70s And 80s And 90s And Came With Such Verve Every Day And Would Still Be Shooting These 10 And 12 Hour Days. So, That In Itself Made This An Extraordinarily Special Occasion For All Of Us. It Wasn't A Job For The Crew After A Few Days, It Took On Another Tone.

It's Very Painful For Us To Feel We Deserve A Life. That's The Toughest Thing. That We Deserve To Have A Life. That Can Take A Lifetime.

The Truth Is, I've Made About 30 Movies In 30 Years, And I've Been Criticized For 30 Years For Not Making More Movies.

I Wanted To Find My Limitations So I Decided To Do Shylock. And If I Fail? I've Never Been Afraid Of That. I Have Other Fears - Doing Bad Work Knowingly Is The Worst Fear.