I read it and fell in love with it. He was going to direct it, I was going to act in it. Years went by. Like a modern-day fairy tale. And the melody is love.
Love is messy.
These two characters, Eddie and Maureen, they have their downs, no doubt, but man, when they're up, they're way up. That, to me, is what all of John Cassavetes' movies are about. He wrote about passion and compassion.