Bullets Over Broadway

591 00:33:16,846 --> 00:33:18,682 But to be honest with you... 592 00:33:18,748 --> 00:33:20,617 at this moment, I don't think you really understand my work at all. 593 00:33:20,684 --> 00:33:22,652 - Oh! Don't be so defensive. - I'm not being defensive. 594 00:33:22,719 --> 00:33:26,489 Perhaps my opinions just aren't intellectual enough for you. Maybe they're just not-- 595 00:33:26,556 --> 00:33:30,560 That's a horrible thing to say. When you have a good idea, I listen to it. I'm responsive. 596 00:33:30,627 --> 00:33:33,964 - In this case, I think you're wrong. That's about it. - When am I right? 597 00:33:34,030 --> 00:33:37,300 You're right about other things, but not about Sylvia Poston and her sexuality. 598 00:33:37,367 --> 00:33:40,804 [ David ] September 17. The first week is behind me now... 599 00:33:40,870 --> 00:33:44,541 and apart from a few minor incidents, things seemed to go okay. 600 00:33:44,574 --> 00:33:46,943 There was that moment between Helen and Eden. 601 00:33:47,010 --> 00:33:50,747 I can't do that speech if she's going to be fidgeting around upstage! 602 00:33:50,814 --> 00:33:53,316 - Well, that's why I think I should sit. I'll sit. - Oh, God! 603 00:33:53,383 --> 00:33:56,853 Sylvia would never ask her to sit in her own house. She despises her! 604 00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:00,457 She doesn't want me to sit. She doesn't want me to stand. I guess I could squat. 605 00:34:00,490 --> 00:34:03,593 David, do you realize you're asking an audience to believe that my husband... 606 00:34:03,627 --> 00:34:05,528 would leave me for this woman? 607 00:34:05,595 --> 00:34:09,332 - Come along. - Excuse me. Excuse me, but I think it's made very clear... 608 00:34:09,399 --> 00:34:12,035 in the speech about erotic attraction, why he does that. 609 00:34:12,269 --> 00:34:14,638 You fool! He's thinking of me when he does that speech. Don't you know anything? 610 00:34:14,671 --> 00:34:17,040 - Only the part about the liver spots. - Listen. 611 00:34:17,107 --> 00:34:20,911 How long has it been since you've had a real hemorrhage? 612 00:34:20,944 --> 00:34:24,814 David, I wonder if now would be a moment to do my soliloquy from Act II? 613 00:34:24,881 --> 00:34:29,686 - [ Crying ] Did you hear what she-- - Please. Aspirin! 614 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:33,356 [ David ] All right, yes, why don't we? And, Eden, just take five. 615 00:34:33,390 --> 00:34:35,959 - I need an aspirin! - [ Crying Continues ] 616 00:34:36,026 --> 00:34:38,862 [ David ] Mitch. 617 00:34:38,895 --> 00:34:42,332 [ David ] Then there was the time when I tried to cut one of Olive's speeches. 618 00:34:42,399 --> 00:34:46,303 - I like that speech, and I already got it memorized. - But it's superfluous. 619 00:34:46,369 --> 00:34:49,005 - It's-- What is it? - Well, I've overwritten it. 620 00:34:49,072 --> 00:34:53,209 We know how you feel about Sylvia's breakdown when you talk with the good doctor. 621 00:34:53,276 --> 00:34:55,979 So it's my fault. Um, the performance is fine. 622 00:34:56,046 --> 00:34:59,015 But, um... I like to say it. 623 00:34:59,082 --> 00:35:01,484 - We-- We don't need it. - Hey! 624 00:35:01,551 --> 00:35:04,454 Are you tryin' to make my part smaller? 625 00:35:04,521 --> 00:35:06,990 - No, no, every-- - My part's small enough as it is! 626 00:35:07,057 --> 00:35:10,493 Every play needs some cuts, and the size of the role is not the important thing. 627 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:14,030 Did you hear what she said? She doesn't want her speech taken away from her! 628 00:35:14,097 --> 00:35:18,468 - Look, look, Mr. Cheech, I've about-- - I'd rather be shootin' crap myself... 629 00:35:18,535 --> 00:35:22,939 but Mr. V. told me that she's gotta be up there a lot! 630 00:35:23,006 --> 00:35:25,542 - I wrote this play, and I'm directing this play! - I don't care. 631 00:35:25,609 --> 00:35:29,412 You wanna get slapped here or do you want me to take you outside and we'll straighten this out? 632 00:35:29,479 --> 00:35:32,082 It's up to you. 633 00:35:35,185 --> 00:35:38,788 [ David ] Warner Purcell remains good-spirited and a joy to work with. 634 00:35:38,855 --> 00:35:43,960 And what discipline. Although, I notice he no longer has just a cup of hot water and lemon. 635 00:35:46,129 --> 00:35:49,899 [ Eden ] lf you start it off at that level-- 636 00:35:49,966 --> 00:35:54,504 Well, what are we going to do about that canine-loving ingenue? 637 00:35:54,537 --> 00:35:57,340 - Did you cast her because you thought she was attractive? - She's pretty... 638 00:35:57,407 --> 00:36:00,911 but more importantly, she has a certain perkiness that the character requires. 639 00:36:00,977 --> 00:36:04,714 She's perky. She makes you wanna sneak up behind her with a pillow and suffocate her. 640 00:36:04,781 --> 00:36:07,05