Bret Easton Ellis

I think he was 48 years old when he started racing, which most people are retiring.

He made the movie winning and kind of falling in love with racing.

He was terrible at first.

He was very slow, and I didn't think he had a prayer.

And he wasn't racing Ferraris, and he wasn't racing... He was racing Datsuns.

It was something the average guy could aspire to.

Well, I think he liked the camaraderie, and I think the fellowship of that... The fellowship of the fellow driver, as you know, there's nothing like it.

It's not anything you can have in Hollywood at all.

I always wanted to be a jock.

I skied and boxed and played football badly.

How do people in show business regard his racing?

Joanne Woodward.

At first, he would take time off his movies, and then later on, the movies had to work around his racing schedule.

So somebody who knows Tom Cruise out there can send it to him.

People have no idea what a maniac he was about driving.

I didn't know also.

I didn't know he started driving.

racing when he was 47.

That's crazy.

Yeah.