"why can't you-- if you're not going to do it, let's give it to john sayles or something." and he was writing cradle will rock, and he could not get the money for that, and his company, you know, was eager to do this. so he started to write. he said, well, let me take a pass at it and see if it captures... his imagination, and sure enough, it got his hands in his imagination, and he did such a brilliant job of kind of, you know, making one character out of the two, and it was his idea to make it the most humane execution because of--in the book, of course, they had been electrocuted, which is pretty tough stuff to see on film, but to use the more humane means of executing the guy, and then we were lucky enough to get sean, and so about two years later, it finally happened. you spent the last 30 years doing important work and not pulling punches. let's talk about the 28 most controversial seconds of your career, at the academy awards, where you decided that this was the appropriate time to talk about-- no, it was inappropriate. it was inappropriate. it was inappropriate, and