Tracy Letts

You write, you've killed off so many of the energetic characters from the first two movies.

Pay the money.

Pay him the goddamn money and get Duvall on set.

The Richard Castellano not coming back.

Clemenza is—no, Gazzo's great.

But it's so clearly—when you see the writing of the De Niro section with Clemenza, he's so clearly meant to be an echo of that.

In the later scenes, it's real.

I mean, I understand maybe that wasn't Coppola's hubris.

Maybe that was Richard Castellano's hubris.

San Francisco filmmaker again.

We're in with the San Francisco guys.

One of those hippie Westerns, you know.

Just like, we don't need to cut these guys' hair.

That's how they would have worn it in the old West.

His take on Jesse James is, well, he plays him like pretty ignorant, right?

Pretty ignorant type, which is, you know, probably wrong.

Based on a William Faulkner story.

I think they had worked on a stage version of it in New York.

I know that Horton Foote had it.

I don't know that Duvall was part of it.