[the Outsiders] Was All New To Me.

There's This Unbelievable Bias And Prejudice Against Quote-unquote Good-looking People, That They Can't Be In Pain Or They Can't Have Rough Lives Or Be Deep Or Interesting.

Francis [ford Coppola] Was On The Cover Of Time Magazine For One From The Heart And For Owning A Studio, And He Was Fresh Off Of Apocalypse [now] And The Godfather Films, So He Was At The Absolute Top Of His Game And Legend [in The Outsiders ].

It Was A Little Company That Released [bad Influence], It Was Really Ahead Of Its Time... I'm Really Proud Of It. And It's Curtis Hanson. He'd Directed A Small Movie Before That, But It Was His First Directorial Work That Really Worked.

[virginia Madsen] Big Part In That Movie ['class'] Required Her Shirt To Get Ripped Off, And Looking Back, It Couldn't Be A More Egregious, Vintage, Lowbrow, 1980s Porky's-esque, Shoehorned-in Moment. Like, You Would Never Have That Moment In A Movie That Aspired To Be What That Movie Did Today.

We Had Shot Six Episodes Of The West Wing Season When 9/11 Happened. An Extraordinary Thing That Would Never Happen Today Is Aaron Going To The Network And Saying, "i Think We Need To Go Back And Reshoot, I Have Something I Want To Do," And The Network Just Kind Of Let Him Do It.