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It's More Like The Inner Workings Of John Bender. He Feels Like He's Been Given A Short Shrift, He's Not Been Provided The Opportunities That Maybe These Other Kids Have. So He Feels Like He Begins In A Hole. And Instead Of Trying To Raise Himself Up, He Wants To Bring All Of Them Down. That's A Dynamic That's Pretty Universal. And So That Was The Real Foothold On That. It Wasn't Like, "oh, My High School Experience Is Like John Bender's [in St. Elmo's Fire]."

[john Hurt] Just Really Gifted, And I Had A Great Time Working With Him And [am] Very Lucky To Have Worked With Him.

It's Great To Work With People That You Like, Any Job, No Matter What You Do.

Part Of The Reason I Thought That I Might Do A Series Is, My Dad Has Pretty Much Been On The Same Road To Work For Years And Years. And It's Like, "could I Do Something Like That? Am I So Independent That I Can't Punch The Clock At The Same Place?" So Part Of It Was A Kind Of Exercise. "can I Be Responsible In This Way?" And Lo And Behold, I Could. Luckily. It'd Be Bad If I Couldn't.

It's Like They Talk About How American Actors Have The Method And English Actors Just Kind Of Switch Views Faster. And John [hurt] Is Telling Me The Story As He's Sitting In That Witness Chair, And They're Putting The Final Touches Of Makeup On. And He Goes, "hold On A Second," To Stop His Story So He Can Do The Take. And He Does This Incredible Take. They Go, "cut." And Then Immediately John Goes, "anyways, So Alec, He's Playing The Chess." And I'm Just Going, "holy Crap." You Get Whiplash From Those Kinds Of Quick Turns!