I loved her audition/work session. Her emotions were so close to the surface,

I always loved those early Elton John albums. I sort of keep going back there,

She loves Susan Sarandon and I know my dad (would have loved) being married to Susan Sarandon, ... Susan said she learned more about how to play the part from talking to my mom than to me.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

The question is where do we go from here? The answer is -- life.

I liked the idea of fiasco as failure gone to church, ... How does that become a transcendent thing? And that morphed into the different mini-themes.