They fear for my safety. I've had a man open his veins with a razor in front of me to show his commitment to me. These things are not comforting, but I don't want to be driven into enforced seclusion by the actions of a small group of obsessives who forgot to take their medication that morning. I enjoy working in the movies with other people immensely. But writing is so private.
Writing is so much about the intimate echoes of private memories, private fears.
Writing requires that you sit very quietly and listen to who you are, and I cannot imagine sharing that process with anybody very successfully. Ian McKellan was wonderful in that movie, by the way. I said I would. That's what I hope I was. I used whatever connections I had to get the picture up and running, but the genius of the movie is all Mr. Condon's, Mr. Frazier's and Sir Ian's.