Siri Hustvedt
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There was an outside place with a dipping pool.
And Paul walked straight into the pool.
And once we realized that he was OK,
I think his former athleticism saved him because his head was still dry, but the rest of him was just soaking wet.
There are many things like that.
While I was writing the book, remembering some of those absurd truths, it made me laugh and made me happy.
Well, yes, I think actually, you know, Paul works in the movies too.
He wasn't the director of Smoke, but he ended up directing part of the sequel, Blue in the Face.
And so in his debut of directing, he had the clapboard or whatever it's called.
And so he was like, you know, it was like kind of stepping into that place because Wayne had...
blown away and he said oh you direct the rest of this thing and so so pa you know he was stepping into those director's shoes and someone on the crew just said come on pa come on you do it just do it pa goes so that was like he crossed the hump and uh then he was happy to do it after that i think but so yeah yeah