“I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach.”
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My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.
You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.