Dignity Is As Essential To Human Life

Having A Lot Of People Suddenly Depending On Me To Get The Job Done Was A Marvelous Motivator. The Book And Movie Deals Seemed To Flip A Switch In My Head, And Off I Went

...maybe It Was Better To Break A Man's Leg Than To Break His Heart.

I Think If I Had Been Writing Fiction, Where The Work Is Entirely Dependent On The Writer's Creativity And The Potential Directions The Narrative Might Take Are Infinite, I Might Have Frozen

In Terms Of Writing About Horses, I Fell Backwards Into That. I Was Intent On Getting A Ph.d., Becoming A Professor, And Writing On History But I Got Sick 14 Years Ago When I Was 19. Getting Sick Derailed That Plan Completely

I Look At The Film As An Opportunity To See Some Bountifully Creative Minds Do Something That I Could Not Do - Tell The Story With Images. I Can't Wait To See What They Do.