Neil Diamond

But I got a request and a part of a script to be used in this movie called Pulp Fiction.

And I've always held to a very tenuous line as to what I wanted my songs to be used as.

And I wouldn't let them be used in cigarette commercials or alcohol commercials.

this the script that i read was way out there it was uh you know beyond what i would turn down normally and i did turn it down uh i heard almost immediately from my publisher who said you know you shouldn't turn this down this this guy's a tremendous director and uh

you should just do it and let them do it, which I did.

And, of course, I've never regretted it because it was an entirely different way of seeing that song.

But that's basically how it happened.

Oh, I loved the movie.

I was amazed by the movie.

I've seen it.

Well, I didn't get the whole script.

I only got a few pages of the script in which the song would be used.

And I don't know if you remember the scene, but she was... Uma Thurman was very heavily into a coke binge, and she went unconscious and had to be taken for some quote-unquote special treatment.

Um...

And, you know, it just seemed too strong for my own taste, and I turned it down on that basis.

Not at all, but I would have reacted the same to any of the other songs I had written.

It was very effective, and it was a lesson that I learned.

See who else is working on it.

See how serious they are.

Don't take it at face value, and don't take your prejudices into this kind of discussion.