With Failure, You Just Try Again.

It's A Profession Where Merit Is Not Necessarily Rewarded.

Just Because You’ve Only Been Alive For Fifteen Years Doesn’t Mean You’re Less Anything Except Old. That’s All It Means. It Doesn’t Mean You’re Less Experienced. It Doesn’t Mean You’re Less Intelligent. It Doesn’t Mean You’re Less Sensitive. It Doesn’t Mean You Take Things Less Seriously. It’s Like, These Are Younger Human Beings, Meaning Don’t, Because They’re Only Ten, Start Thinking That They Don’t Know What You’re Talking About -because They Do. Don’t Leave People Out In The Cold, And Don’t Talk Down To People -don’t. It Never Works Out.

There Were A Few Things That, In Rehearsal, Any One Of Us Might Try. [john] Hughes Would Go, "i Like That," To Me Spitting Up In The Air And Catching It In My Mouth. It Was Just Something I Did In A Rehearsal And Molly [ Ringwald] Went, "ewww." And John Went, "can You Do That Again?" And I Went All Day Long, And He Was Like, "okay, Let's Do That."

[john] Hughes Was Open To That [rehearsal]. This Can Only Happen If The Director And/or The Writer Are Open To That.

The Dark Backward. Bill Paxton Is In It With Me. Wayne Newton. James Caan. Adam Rifkin Wrote And Directed It. It Was Made A Number Of Years Ago And Very Odd. Not For The Squeamish.