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“He showed me forty”: Bob Weinstein, AI, 11/5/03.
“Wes was God.” and following: Rack, AI, 12/1/99.
“Bob will talk for much longer”: Lechner, AI, 5/31/01.
“Bob is like”: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01.
“As soon as they got” and following: Rack, AI, 12/1/99.
“From the first day” and following: Matthew Robbins, AI, 11/8/03.
“I have to go” and following: Rack, AI, 12/1/99.
“It was better to talk to”: Tarantino, AI, 4/30/03.
“This is not going to happen” and following: Rack, AI, 12/1/99.
“Mira saved his job.” and following: Tarantino, AI, 4/30/03.
“Pulp Fiction had just happened” and following: James Mangold, AI, 6/10/02.
“He was desperate”: Confidential source.
“Most studios don’t get as intimately”: Konrad, AI, 6/10/02.
“I got on the subway”: Mangold, AI, 6/10/02.
“You have to be able”: Steinberg, AI, 2/21/00.
“absolutely fearless”: Lechner, AI, 2/8/00.
“She didn’t like film”: Gigliotti, AI, 2/14/01.
“I said, ‘Meryl’ ”: Mangold, AI, 6/10/02.
“found a way to tap into”: Konrad, AI, 6/10/02.
“You have to be careful” and following: Mangold, AI, 6/10/02.
“It’s Brooklyn, there’s gotta be”: Confidential source.
“That’s pretty dumb”: Confidential source.
“I walked around”: Mangold, AI, 6/10/02.
“It was a love-in”: Bob Weinstein, AI, 11/5/03.
“Harvey didn’t pay a lot of attention”: Konrad, AI, 6/10/02.
“I think it’s a”: Foley, AI, 7/13/01.
“I fight with my brother”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 10/30/02.
“The worst thing”: Tusk, AI, 2/7/00.
“Despite the fraternal psychodrama”: Foley, AI, 7/13/01.
“You can’t do anything right.”: Bowles, AI, 3/24/00.
“You’d open a Bob film” and following: Foley, AI, 7/13/01.
“The conventional wisdom”: Bob Weinstein, AI, 11/5/03.
“Who releases a bloody”: Lechner, AI, 2/8/00.
“Everybody’s telling me”: Confidential source.
“Bob was adamant about it”: Konrad, AI, 6/10/02.
“Cary did the worst fucking thing”: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01.
“Two thirds of the time”: Tusk, AI, 2/7/00.
“Those movies that were bought”: Barker, AI, 1/14/99.
“I don’t care” and following: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 8/9/02.
“They created instant recognition”: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01.
“The TV commercials ran in L.A.”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 8/9/02.
“I think that if we hadn’t sold”: Elwes, AI, 10/26/00.
“God gave me this body”: Ann Oldenburg, “Pietra Thornton Bares Body and Soul,” USA Today, 12/8/97.
“It’s like taking one of those tests”: Steven Rosen, “Billy Bob Thornton’s Anonymity at an End,” Denver Post, 2/16/97.
“We’re losers”: Confidential source.
“Oh, you’ve got to come” and following: Soderbergh, AI, 5/2/02.
“We sold 240,000 cassettes”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 8/9/02.
“When you got a production statement”: Meistrich, AI, 5/13/03.
“Harvey’s like Pac-Man”: Elwes, AI, 10/26/00.
“In this business”: Meistrich, AI, 5/13/03.
“Meistrich didn’t see”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 11/11/03.
“I’m going to kill you”: “Wife Sues ‘Sling Blade’ Star,” Times Picayune, 9/20/97.
“His Marv Albert defense” and following: Rosen, “Billy Bob Thornton’s Anonymity at an End.”
“Those two films were the last”: Ray, AI, 3/2/01.
“We had a breakthrough”: Ray, AI, 3/2/01.
“It wasn’t greed”: Schmidt, AI, 7/30/03.
“All the goodwill”: Ray, AI, 9/29/01.
“If we did not”: Schmidt, AI, 7/30/03.
“If you’re going to play”: Ray, AI, 3/8/01.
“I had a lot of experience”: McGurk, AI, 5/1/01.
“Amir, so listen” and following: Schmidt, AI, 7/30/03.
“We’d say you’d have to deal” and following: Ray, AI, 3/8/01.
“Bingham feared” and following: Amir Malin, AI, 8/6/02.
“Whatever his intentions” and following: Ray, AI, 3/8/01.
“It was a destabilizing”: Schmidt, AI, 7/30/03.
“I wanted to act”: Ray, AI, 3/8/01.
“Amir took a well”: Confidential source.
“Well, whaddya wanna do?” and following: Ray, AI, 3/8/01.
“I sat down with Bingham”: Malin, AI, 8/6/02.
“For years, everyone”: Ray, AI, 2/15/01.
“Why should filmmakers”: John Clark and Elaine Dutka, “Miramax Finds Success Breeds Admiration, Envy,” Los Angeles Times, 1/30/97.
“I haven’t had a cent”: Minghella, AI, 11/1/01.
“You’ll be paid in October.”: Confidential source.
“Go ahead”: Confidential source.
“Harvey the monster”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 8/9/02.
“What’s that got”: Zaentz, AI, 11/6/03.
“You push the boat out”: Thomas, AI, 4/11/02.
“is a pushcart peddler”: David Carr, “The Emperor Miramaximus.”
“angry slash philosophical” and following: Walter Murch, AI, 11/14/00.
“I have a very clear position” and following: Minghella, AI, 11/1/01.
“No! Billy Wilder”: Zaentz, AI, 11/6/03.
“Harvey knows that I hate”: Tarantino, AI, 4/30/03.
CHAPTER 9: ACE AND GARY
Epigraph: Damon, AI, 9/12/97.
“They dragged me”: Ben Affleck, AI, 2/21/02.
“Why the fuck do you guys”: Damon, AI, 9/12/97.
“My agent said it was” and following: Affleck, AI, 2/21/02.
“Ben’s right in that art”: Hawke, AI, 10/28/02.
“Yeah, guys are making”: Affleck, AI, 2/21/02.
“We’d just say” and following: Damon, AI, 9/26/01.
“We agreed with whatever” and following: Affleck, AI, 2/21/02.
“The first thing we found out” and following: Damon, AI, 9/26/01.
“We need an advance” and following: Affleck, AI, 2/21/02.
“We developed the script” and following: Affleck, AI, 2/21/02.
“It had to be bought”: Damon, AI, 9/26/01.
“It was yet another”: Affleck, AI, 2/21/02.
“Can I come home”: Smith, AI, nd.
“Chasing Amy could never”: Frontline documentary, 5/01.
“This is business, Kevin” and following: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01.
“Everyone warned us” and following: Damon, AI, 9/26/01.
“Immediately we loved him”: Affleck, AI, 2/21/02.
“It was tainted goods”: Lechner, AI, 2/8/00.
“You don’t have to accept” and following: Damon, AI, 9/26/01.
“We knew that he supposedly fought”: Affleck, AI, 2/21/02.
“Harvey, let’s hire him”: Webster, AI, 10/20/01.
“A lot of these guys”: Van Sant, AI, 10/18/01.
“I just want you guys” and following: Damon, AI, 9/26/01.
“I love Lawrence”: Lechner, AI, 5/3/01.
“FUCK OFF, Lawrence” and following: Affleck, AI, 2/21/02.
“Wildwood is such a mess” and following: Confidential source.
“Getting General Cinema” and following: Gary Meyer, AI, 11/27/01.
“It was arrogant”: Confidential source.
“The movies that Harvey”: Konrad, AI, 6/7/02.
“Harvey is not as interested”: Lechner, AI, 2/8/00.
“We don’t develop movies.”: Corie Brown, unpublished Newsweek piece, c. 2/00.
“My biggest frustration”: Konrad, AI, 6/10/02.
“Harvey is not the best developer” and following: Webster, AI, 10/20/01.
“There was always a little question”: Tusk, AI, 8/16/00.
“We’ll do it” and following: Confidential source.
“The poor guy”: Webster, AI, 10/20/01.
“We will torture you” and following: Confidential source.
“It was a kill”: Gill, AI, 2/11/03.
“We need to cast”: Confidential source.
“Work for Dimension”: Confidential source.
“It was more of a studio”: Lechner, AI, 5/31/01.
“Scott came to see me”: Mechanic, AI, 5/2/01.
“Scott is a good dealmaker”: McGurk, AI, 5/1/01.
“Look, meet this guy” and following: Ray, AI, 3/8/01.
“Based on McGurk’s comfort”: Schmidt, AI, 5/9/00.
“the ugliest place” and following: Hirschberg, “Crabgrass Gothic,” New York Times Magazine, 9/27/98.
“You gotta get rid of”: Hope, AI, 6/10/01.
“didn’t like Amir”: Schmidt, AI, 7/31/03.
“This is right up our street” and following: Ray, AI, 3/19/01.
“The one mistake October made”: Hope, AI, 6/10/01.
“It was one of the few movies” and following: Vachon, AI, 6/1/01.
“It’s compelling and interesting”: Ray, AI, 3/19/01.
“When we were dicking around” and following: Vachon, AI, 6/1/01.
“didn’t want to leave”: Schmidt, AI, 7/31/03.
“I’m surprised that they”: Confidential source.
“When Greenstein came over”: Ray, AI, 12/16/98.
“Harvey just screamed obscenities”: Schmidt, AI, 6/9/00.
“Standing in the door”: Ray, AI, 12/16/98.
“I’ve never seen him afraid”: Glatzer, AI, 4/26/00.
“I could see where”: Ray, AI, 3/8/01.
“I think you should put” and following: Elwes, AI, 10/26/00.
“Bingham, let me give you”: Woods, AI, 11/30/99.
“There were flagpoles”: Ray, AI, 3/8/01.
“Scott was trying to get out”: Bowles, AI, 6/7/00.
“I want to see it” and following: Elwes, AI, 10/26/00.
“Where’s Harvey” and following: Ray, AI, 3/8/01.
“Someone wants to talk to you” and following: Elwes, AI, 10/26/00.
“Where the fuck is Harvey?” and following: Ray, AI, 3/8/01.
“Oh, shit, I forgot” and following: Elwes, AI, 10/26/00.
“Cassian, if you walk”: Schmidt, AI, 5/25/00.
“What the fuck” and following: Elwes, AI, 10/26/00.
“Cassian, I don’t even know” and following: Schmidt, AI, 5/25/00.
“I’ve changed my mind”: Elwes, AI, 10/26/00.
“I was out after $5”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 10/3/02.
“You got a lotta fuckin’ nerve” and following: Elwes, AI, 10/26/00.
“This thing has cratered”: Ray, AI, 3/8/01.
“Okay, we’ll make the deal”: Schmidt, AI, 5/25/00.
“I think he was really toying”: Bowles, AI, 6/7/00.
“Amir Malin is Satan”: Glatzer, AI, 4/26/00.
CHAPTER 10: CROSSOVER DREAMS
Epigraph: Lynn Hirschberg, “The Two Hollywoods: The Man Who Changed Everything,” The New York Times, 11/16/97.
“There was never a hiccup”: Damon, AI, 9/26/01, 9/12/97.
“Great, let’s test it”: Van Sant, AI, 10/18/01.
“It tested 94” and following: Affleck, AI, 2/21/02.
“Harvey’s mentality”: Damon, AI, 9/26/01.
“Me and Quentin” and following: Affleck, AI, 2/21/02.
“The marquee had Good Will Hunting”: Damon, AI, 9/26/01.
“The movie had done enormously well”: Affleck, AI, 2/21/02.
“All right, guys, you ever” and following: Damon, AI, 9/26/01; Confidential source.
“Matt and Ben weren’t interested”: Van Sant, AI, 10/18/01.
“Gus is full of shit”: Affleck, AI, 2/21/02.
“For two kids from Boston”: Damon, AI, 10/3/01.
“He’ll call me up”: Damon, AI, 10/30/01.
“Those guys went from nowhere” and following: Van Sant, AI, 10/18/01.
“The exchange is” and following: Affleck, AI, 2/21/02.
“Ben is far more business-savvy”: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01.
“People are going”: Lee, AI, 11/8/02.
“I don’t know”: Len Klady, “Scream 2 Debut Coin Overstated,” Variety, posted 12/21/97.
“Dick Cook told them”: Joe Roth, AI, 5/1/00.
“that it was”: Klady, “Scream 2 Debut Coin Overstated.”
“I’m not gonna tell anyone”: Confidential source.
“Quentin had done”: Confidential source.
“Quentin spent most”: Rodriguez, AI, 6/17/03.
“Trigger is the”: Confidential source.
“I’d go over”: Louis Black, AI, 6/05/03.
“He loved it” and following: Dulce Durante, AI, 6/17/03.
“So I called”: Confidential source.
“he would do”: Confidential source.
“This was not”: Confidential source.
“There was a lot”: Hess, AI, 10/23/98.
“He’s a genuinely”: Black, AI, 6/05/03.
“Quentin is not”: Jennifer Beals, AI, 7/2/03.
“Before I was famous” and following: Tarantino, AI, 6/30/03.
“Wow, it played great!” and following: Tarantino, AI, 2/3/03.
“I’m not saying” and following: Lee, AI, 11/8/02.
“ignorant”: “Quentin’s Race Slurs Spark Brawl,” “Page Six,” New York Post, 5/5/98.
“I’m sorry, if he wants” and following: Kevin Merida, “Spike Lee, Holding Court,” Washington Post, 5/1/98.
“Spike, you gotta stop” and following: Lee, AI, 11/8/02.
“That’s something Quentin”: Lee, AI, 11/8/02; S. F. Said, “Getting Spikey, The Context interviews Spike Lee, director of Bamboozled,” thecontext.com, 4/6/01.
“He stuck his hand”: Tarantino, AI, 6/30/03.
“It was almost like”: Tarantino, AI, 6/30/03.
“More or less every”: Quentin Curtis, The Arts: Why I’m Not afraid of Failing in New York,” Daily Telegraph, 6/19/98.
“I thought it was such” and following: Darren Aronofsky, AI, 12/11/01.
“when you’re in production”: Webster, AI, 10/20/01.
“Can’t there be”: Confidential source.
“In Harvey’s mind”: Deutchman, 3/1/00.
“When a movie”: Confidential source.
“Everybody miraculously”: Webster, AI, 10/20/01.
“The fight was about” and following: Lechner, AI, 5/31/01.
“An editor friend of mine”: Ivory, AI, 7/9/01.
“There’s a $50 million” and following: Confidential source.
“The root of everything”: Lechner, AI, 5/31/01.
“Harvey fell off the tracks”: Peter Newman, AI, 6/1/01.
“Harvey gets personal”: Gigliotti, AI, 2/14/01.
“Miramax had changed a lot”: Lechner, AI, 5/31/01.
“That’s when it went bad”: Schmidt, AI, 5/9/00.
“I don’t know if you guys” and following: Ray, AI, 3/19/01.
“I checked with”: Schmidt, AI, 6/9/00.
“It had nothing”: Rob Carliner, AI, 10/20/03.
“I can’t believe”: Schmidt, AI, 6/9/00.
“got red-faced crazy”: Ray, AI, 3/19/01.
“Bingham would yell”: Confidential source.
“If you look at two camps” and following: Schmidt, AI, 6/9/00.
“Scott was always talking”: Glatzer, AI, 4/26/00.
“Scott was systematically”: Ray, AI, 3/19/01.
“Scott was an”: Carliner, AI, 10/20/03.
“Hello, Matt?”: South Park cd.
“Scott never said”: Confidential source.
“That never was”: Sandy Stern, AI, 10/20/03.
“Nothing could have”: Rice, AI, 7/23/01.
“The Apostle benefited”: Schmidt, AI, 7/31/03.
“Couldn’t she have waited” and following: Confidential source.
“He flipped over it”: Ed Zwick, AI, 8/29/03.
“I’ll give you”: Gigliotti, AI, 2/14/01.
“Who cares”: McGurk, AI, 6/18/03.
“They were being greedy”: John Logigian, AI, 10/30/03.
“You know what”: Gigliotti, AI, 10/3/01.
“You know, I”: Confidential source.
“I don’t think anyone”: Gigliotti, AI, 2/14/01.
“Harvey was so contrite”: Zwick, AI, 8/29/01.
“Forget about Dogma”: Kevin Smith, AI, 6/6/02.
“You’re going to work”: Confidential source.
“was involved in every detail”: Granata, AI, 12/16/02.
“Get his name”: Norman, AI, 8/13/03.
“You have a good movie”: Granata, AI, 12/16/02.
“This was one case”: Lechner, AI, 5/31/01.
“We need more jokes”: Gigliotti, AI, 10/3/01.
“No! That’s not true”: Rebecca Traister, “All This Gray Hair Is from Far from Heaven: Christine Vachon Her Magnificent Obsession,” New York Observer, 11/6/02.
“has a reputation for being” and following: Vachon, AI, nd.
“Well, actually what” and following: Lechner, AI, 5/3/01.
“It was awful” and following: Vachon, AI, nd, and Projections, 152.
“It was like Ted”: Vachon, AI, 6/1/01.
“They were there to open” and following: Ray, AI, 3/19/01.
“My attitude to Universal”: Ray, AI, 5/19/01.
“We can’t release it”: Confidential source.
“I don’t want to understand”: Hirschberg, “Crabgrass Gothic.”
“Ronnie thought I was”: Ray, AI, 9/29/01.
“the whole thing had unraveled” and following: Ray, AI, 3/19/01.
“We weren’t distributors”: Vachon, AI, 6/1/01.
“There are other fights” and following: Ray, AI, 3/19/01.
“I loved to drop” and following: Kindlon, AI, 10/4/02.
“You could work at the company”: Robin Rizzuto, AI, 7/27/00.
“Just because you’re merely”: Confidential source.
“I had worked at New Line”: Hart, AI, 9/17/02.
“The way to get respect”: Confidential source.
“You’re a dildo!”: Eugenia Peretz, “Celebrity’s Little Helper,” Vanity Fair, 7/00.
“One time a floater”: Hart, AI, 9/17/02.
“I hate the sound”: Confidential source.
