“It’s the old tale”: Matt Damon, AI, 9/26/01.
“He’s the kinda”: Jack Lechner, AI, 5/31/01.
“I’ve heard that story”: Mark Lipsky, AI, 11/15/99.
“We’re artists”: Lynn Hirschberg, “The Mad Passion of Harvey and Bob,” New York, 10/10/94.
“This business is”: Peter Schweitzer and Rochelle Schweitzer, Disney: The Mouse Betrayed (Washington, DC: Regnery, 1998), 192.
“Are we gonna”: Confidential source.
“You can’t really”: Mark Tusk, AI, 2/3/00.
“Financing really didn’t exist”: John Sayles, AI, 7/9/97.
“The studios were bidding”: Ira Deutchman, AI, nd.
“Specialized film”: Eamonn Bowles, AI, 6/7/00.
“Many of these startup”: Deutchman, AI, nd.
“We followed the same theory”: Tom Bernard, reduced from Eugene Hernandez, “Decade: Michael Barker and Tom Bernard—Another Ten Years in the Classics World,” Part 1 of interview, 12/20/99, indieWIRE.com.
“Independent usually meant”: Sydney Pollack, AI, 6/10/02.
“the clothesline”: My First Movie, edited by Stephen Lowenstein (New York: Pantheon, 2000), 61.
“The original sin”: James Schamus, AI, 7/2/02.
“It’s like looking”: Sayles, AI, 7/9/97.
“I remember the”: Tod Lippy, ed., Projections 11: New York Film-Makers on Film-Making (London-New York: Faber and Faber, 2001), 9.
“I was just getting”: Norton, AI, 8/8/02.
“It’s so exciting”: Allison Anders, AI, nd.
“I’ve been pretending”: Bill Desowitz, “Puzzling Filmgoers, with Serious Intent: The Coolly Received Drama ‘Solaris’ Aims to Challenge Audiences with Tough Questions, Say Its Star and Director,” Los Angeles Times, 12/3/02.
“I remember seeing”: Richard Linklater, AI, 3/12/01.
“I certainly didn’t feel”: Steven Soderbergh, AI, 4/22/99.
“Most of the filmmakers”: Schamus, AI, 3/4/99.
“A good deal is smarter”: Ray Price, AI, 12/9/00.
“To make a film”: Colin MacCabe, Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), 97.
“Independent films punched”: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01.
“If I didn’t exist”: Elaine Dutka and John Clark, “Miramax Finds Success Breeds Admiration, Envy,” Los Angeles Times, 1/30/97.
CHAPTER 1: MADE IN USA
Epigraph: Peter McAlevey, “All’s Well That Ends Gruesomely,” New York Times, 12/6/92.
“Look at Jimmy”: Terri Minsky, “Hot Phenomenon,” Rolling Stone, 5/18/89.
“the skiing and the parties” and following: Smith, Party in a Box, 123.
“feel-good, socially responsible”: Smith, Party in a Box, 89.
“People were passionate” and following: Marjorie Skouras, AI, 5/2/00.
“It read like” and following: Nancy Tenenbaum, AI, 10/2/99.
“I think you’ve made”: Katherine Dieckmann, “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire,” Village Voice, 8/8/89.
“Is she going to have a problem” and following: Steven Soderbergh, sex, lies, and videotape (New York: Harper & Row, 1990), 206, 207.
“That’s how confident” and following: Jeff Lipsky, AI, 10/4/99.
“You should really see it” and following: Marjorie Skouras, AI, 5/2/00.
“It got to the point”: Minsky, “Hot Phenomenon.”
“Bob’s very paranoid”: Maria Schaeffer, AI, 10/3/90.
“Sterling was a”: Confidential source.
“Sundance started out”: Annick Smith, AI, nd.
“He wants to”: Confidential source.
“We’d convert the”: Robert Redford, AI, 11/13/90.
“The script is worthless”: Denise Earle, AI, nd.
“Redford was not there”: Tony Safford, AI, nd.
“This project was like”: Redford, AI, 11/13/90.
“It was a perfect”: Sterling Van Wagenen, AI, nd.
“Redford said to”: Michael Hausman, AI, nd.
“Redford never wanted”: Earle, AI, nd.
“Maybe because so”: Van Wagenen, AI, 10/22/03.
“In 1984, ’85, and ’86”: Howard Klein, AI, nd.
“He was funnier”: Suzanne Weil, AI, 10/10/90.
“Many for-profit” and following: Schaeffer, AI, 10/2/90.
“Bob had blinders”: Confidential source.
“is not like one”: Gary Beer, AI, 11/15/90.
“it was never clear”: Johann Jacobs, AI, nd.
“I worked there”: Schaeffer, AI, 10/2/90.
“There was a lot”: Cathy Schulman, AI, 4/25/02.
“We could have gotten”: Schaeffer, AI, 10/22/90.
“It drove me crazy”: Redford, AI, 11/13/90.
“To make Gary”: Confidential source.
“Redford thought”: Confidential source.
“I said, ‘Don’t’ ” and following: Redford, AI, 11/13/90.
“Bob does have a”: Van Wagenen, AI, 10/22/03.
“He said, ‘Hey, look’ ”: Redford, AI, 11/13/90.
“slap in the face”: Gary Burr, AI, 11/15/90.
“It was like Bob”: Mary Cranney, AI, nd.
“Redford doesn’t fire”: Safford, AI, 12/6/90.
“Sundance”: Sundancer, Christmas 1988.
“So what have you heard” and following: Deutchman, AI, 9/17/99.
“Can my girlfriend”: Minsky, “Hot Phenomenon.”
“flypapered” and following: Soderbergh, AI, 4/22/99.
“I was involved”: Minsky, “Hot Phenomenon”; James Greenberg, “sex, lies, and Kafka,” Connoisseur, 10/91.
“There’s a zeitgeist”: Norton, AI, 8/8/02.
“When I look at it now”: Greenberg, “sex, lies, and Kafka”; Steven Soderbergh, Getting Away with It (London: Faber & Faber, 1999), 185.
“It was different then”: Soderbergh, AI, 4/22/99.
“I’ve seen it and I loved it”: Soderbergh, sex, lies, and videotape, 225.
“I got a toothache”: Soderbergh, AI, 5/2/02.
“They’re slime” and following: Minsky, “Hot Phenomenon.”
“We’re not as well-heeled”: Bingham Ray, AI, 2/15/01.
“a packed audience”: Bob Weinstein, “All thanks to Max,” Vanity Fair, 4/03, 440.
“This is fantastic” and following: Martin N. Lewis, AI, 4/6/00.
“While they were still trying” and following: Robert Newman, AI, 6/13/00.
“retouched Ohana’s chest”: Reid Rosefelt, AI, 10/18/00.
“People said that they were crazy”: Alan Brewer, AI, 4/2/00.
“I’ve always called” and following: Jeff Silver, AI, 6/14/00.
“It was, Okay”: Confidential source.
“It wasn’t limited”: Silver, AI, 6/14/00.
“It was hard for them”: Brewer, AI, 4/2/00.
“No one knew what” and following: Silver, AI, 6/14/00.
“It was amateur night” and following: Chris Mankiewicz, AI, 4/12/00.
“They were trying”: Lewis, AI, 4/6/00.
“Playing for Keeps definitely weakened”: Brewer, 4/2/00.
“Their passion to make”: Lewis, AI, 4/6/00.
“What was done”: Tom Pollock, AI, 3/11/03.
“Really dumb people”: Lewis, AI, 4/6/00.
“That movie was like”: Ed Glass, AI, 10/23/00.
“Within days or weeks” and following: James Doyle, AI, 3/19/00.
“I called everybody I knew” and following: Mark Lipsky, AI, 11/15/99.
“If you said you worked”: Stuart Burkin, AI, 4/29/02.
“Getting the phone answered”: Mark Lipsky, AI, 11/15/99.
“They sat there for months.”: Marty Zeidman, AI, 4/28/00.
“It seemed like not even a day”: Mark Lipsky, AI, 11/15/99.
“I thought they genuinely” and following: Brantley, AI, 10/18/99.
“ ‘They lie and cheat and steal”: Brantley, AI, 10/18/9
9.
“Harvey got the idea for Miramax”: Paul Webster, AI, 10/20/01.
“I came out of the punk scene”: Steve Woolley, AI, 2/26/02.
“Look, I want” and following: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 6/28/02.
“I would get”: Lizzie Borden, AI, 10/25/00.
“He was squeamish”: Mark Lipsky, AI, 11/15/99.
“No, Bob” and following: Confidential source.
“Distribution costs on”: John Pierson, Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes (New York: Miramax Books, 1995), 97.
“They were trying”: Christina Kounelias, AI, 4/5/00.
“Harvey was ranting”: Zeidman, AI, 4/28/00.
“Their father was”: Glass, AI, 10/23/00.
“This was a very small”: Zeidman, AI, 4/28/00.
“We sold it as”: David Dinerstein, AI, 10/22/99.
“It was one of”: Zeidman, AI, 4/28/00.
CHAPTER 2: THE ANGER ARTISTS
Epigraph: John Colapinto, “The big bad wolves of Miramax,” Rolling Stone, 4/3/97.
“The sell was”: Kounelias, AI, 4/5/00.
“Harvey was an outsider”: Donna Gigliotti, AI, 2/14/01.
“Michael, you gotta”: Angus Finney, The Egos Have Landed (London: Arrow, 1998).
“Steve, you’re making” and following: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 6/28/02.
“I’m a kid”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 6/28/02.
“We re-edited Scandal”: Glass, AI, 10/23/00.
“A lot of the movies” and following: Alison Brantley, AI, 10/18/99.
“Are you crazy?” and following: Brantley, AI, 10/18/99.
“When you’re talking”: Jack Foley, AI, 6/21/01.
“It pissed me off”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 10/3/02.
“Christine gazing”: Finney, The Egos Have Landed.
“Thaat’s a stupid answer.”: Confidential source.
“It was easier to say”: Tusk, AI, 1/31/00.
“Whaddya think?” and following: Tusk, AI, 2/3/00; 8/16/00.
“At that point it was”: Tusk, AI, 1/31/00.
“People will say”: David Linde, AI, 11/16/99.
“Everybody who called us” and following: Larry Estes, AI, 10/29/99.
“I’m not going back”: Michael Fleming, “Miramax, Riding ‘Sex’ Wave, Storms on into the ’90s,” Variety, 1/31/90.
“At that time”: Bobby Newmyer, AI, 4/20/99.
“They were pointing”: John Pierson, AI, 9/12/00.
“seemed a little nervous”: Tenenbaum, AI, 10/2/99.
“There was paranoia”: Deutchman, AI, 9/17/99.
“It was one”: Estes, AI, 10/29/99.
“Estes insisted that Miramax”: Tenenbaum, AI, 10/2/99.
“At the time $1 million”: Estes, AI, 10/29/99.
“The whole thing”: Soderbergh, AI, 4/22/99.
“They probably did overpay”: Mark Lipsky, AI, 11/15/99.
“The perception within”: David Steinberg, AI, 2/21/00.
“Hearing that Harvey” and following: Janet Grillo, AI, 4/10/01.
“Up until then, companies”: Safford, AI, 9/29/98.
“I looked around”: Marjorie Skouras, AI, 5/2/00.
“With Scandal I realized”: Zeidman, AI, 4/28/00.
“Nobody wanted to be”: Mark Lipsky, AI, 11/15/99.
“I’d go in there”: Glass, AI, 10/23/00.
“He was huffing and puffing”: Confidential source.
“Bob sniped at her.”: Mark Lipsky, AI, 11/15/99.
“you couldn’t imagine”: Confidential source.
“demanding, aggressive” and following: Brewer, AI, 4/2/00.
“There must have been”: Steve Earnhart, AI, 5/21/02.
“Ach, your mother” and following: Brewer, AI, 4/2/00.
“Instead of growing up” and following: Rick Lyman, “Watching Movies with Harvey Weinstein,” New York Times, 4/27/01.
“Miramax ran on fear.”: Burkin, AI, 4/29/02.
“Anything anybody ever says” and following: Amy Hart, AI, nd.
“How can you treat”: Confidential source.
“I was having a nervous breakdown”: Myrna Chagnard, AI, 3/14/02.
“Working there was like”: Eleanor Reznikoff, AI, 3/13/02.
“In the end” and following: Jeff Rose, AI, 4/28/02.
“There was very scary yelling”: Mark Lipsky, AI, 11/15/99.
“Bob is the scary one”: Webster, AI, 10/20/01.
“Bob scared me much more”: Brantley, AI, 10/18/99.
“If you could consider Harvey”: Confidential source.
“Bob’s the one”: Confidential source.
“You don’t want to get”: Bowles, AI, 3/24/00.
“When it churned up”: Dennis Rice, AI, 8/27/03.
“He would kind of puff up”: Brantley, AI, 10/18/99.
“I’m really susceptible” and following: Bowles, AI, 3/24/00.
“When Harvey”: Mark Lipsky, AI, 11/15/99.
“He’s obviously got”: Bowles, AI, 3/24/00.
“His emotions are completely” and following: Safford, AI, 9/29/98.
“They drove everybody crazy”: Mark Lipsky, AI, 11/15/99.
“Some days Harvey would”: Rice, AI, 7/24/01.
“They were good and evil”: Dinerstein, AI, 10/22/99.
“Harvey and Bob” and following: Mark Lipsky, AI, 11/15/99.
“There’s a hesitancy”: Safford, AI, 9/29/98.
“If you got on an emotional”: Bowles, AI, 3/24/00.
“They were equal opportunity abusers.”: John Schmidt, AI, 6/9/00.
“I always felt sorrier”: Brantley, AI, 10/18/99.
“I’m gonna fuckin’ throw”: Confidential source.
“There is no reason”: Lyman, “Watching Movies with Harvey Weinstein.”
“was to do their bidding”: Brantley, AI, 10/18/99.
“Michael, see that balcony”: Confidential source.
“People hate working there”: Rice, AI, 7/23/01.
“They were nuclear”: Foley, AI, 6/21/01.
“Bob was constantly critical” and following: Van Wagenen, AI, nd.
“I’d heard filmmakers say”: Redford, AI, 11/13/90.
“In the beginning”: Linda Remy, AI, 12/20/89.
“Redford’s name attached”: Tony Safford, AI, nd.
“We could interview everyone”: Remy, AI, 12/20/89.
“Redford took over the film”: Remy, AI, 12/15/89.
“It might have worked”: Richard Fischoff, AI, nd.
“Our investors were putting up”: Kjehl Rasmussen, AI, 3/31/01.
“The problem was”: Van Wagenen, AI, nd.
“The institute has really missed”: Safford, AI, nd.
“It was helpful”: Tom DiCillo, AI, 1/4/01.
“There was a mandate”: Michelle Satter, AI, 11/13/90.
“They literally brought their own” and following: Urman, AI, 10/31/01.
“My impression of him”: Alison Brantley, AI, 10/18/99.
“Paramount wanted me to change” and following: Lee, AI, 11/8/02.
“white-plight” and following: Soderbergh, sex, lies, and videotape, 239, 241.
“us confidence in the future of cinema”: Scott Collins, “The Funk of Steven Soderbergh: His First Film, ‘Sex, Lies, and Videotape,’ Put Him on Top of Hollywood’s Hill. He Predicted Then That It Was All Downhill from There. Why Was He Right?” Los Angeles Times Magazine, 2/16/97.
“It’s like a door opened”: Soderbergh, sex, lies, and videotape, 241.
“You’re John Lennon”: Alex Simon, “Steven Soderbergh: Hiding in Plain Sight,” Venice, 7/98, 37.
“What’s so heroic” and following: Soderbergh, sex, lies, and videotape, 247.
“He’s extremely smart”: Soderbergh, sex, lies, and videotape, 244.
“Both Redford and Pollack”: Bobby Newmyer, AI, 4/20/99.
“What the hell’s going on here?”: Confidential source.
“I was going to get my head”: Collins, “The Funk of
Steven Soderbergh.”
“Don’t you trust me?”: Confidential source.
“mature”: Dieckmann, “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire.”
“He liked to bowl.”: Greenberg, “sex, lies, and Kafka.”
“Their marketing instincts”: Deutchman, AI, 9/17/99.
“It was an exploitative”: Manne, AI, 9/28/01.
“How are we supposed to sell”: Deutchman, AI, 9/17/99.
“art house death”: Soderbergh, sex, lies, and videotape, 244.
“I helped keep”: Deutchman, AI, 9/17/99.
“Everybody wants to know me”: Dieckmann, “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire.”
“Steven’s one of those people” and following: Brantley, AI, 10/18/99.
“There’s a difference between”: Soderbergh, AI, 8/31/01.
“When sex, lies happened”: Dennis Lim, “Having Your Way with Hollywood,” Village Voice, 1/3–9/01.
“think the reason”: Soderbergh, sex, lies, and videotape, 249.
“Up to that point”: Foley, AI, 6/21/01.
“It was like pouring water” and following: Zeidman, AI, 4/28/00.
“you’d take a four inch ad”: Ray, AI, 3/8/01.
“To earn $25 million”: Estes, AI, 10/29/99.
“I’m stunned with how deeply”: Fleming, “Miramax, Riding ‘Sex’ Wave, Storms on into the ’90s.”
“There was a sense”: Geoff Gilmore, AI, 3/9/01.
“Maybe it’s time”: Redford, AI, 11/13/90.
“There aren’t that many” and following: Frank Daniel, AI, nd.
“the very thing”: Ulu Grosbard, AI, nd.
“I wasn’t all that impressed”: Gilmore, AI, 3/9/01.
“I just couldn’t have it”: Redford, AI, 11/13/90.
“I had a chance”: Weil, AI, 10/10/90.
“It wasn’t passive aggressive”: Pollack, AI, 6/10/02.
“No matter how hard”: Redford, AI, 11/13/90.
“I would wish”: Garcia, AI, 10/20/90.
“A lot of people”: Redford, AI, 11/13/90.
“Bob would have liked”: Van Wagenen, AI, nd.
“I understood that” and following: Soderbergh, AI, 4/22/99.
“Harvey used to say”: Burkin, AI, 4/29/02.
“We never tested”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 7/18/02.
“Miramax did market-research”: Diana Tauder, AI, 6/9/01.
“We never put it like this” and following: Burkin, AI, 4/29/02.
“I just felt like it was taking”: Tauder, AI, 6/9/01.
“I love Ruth”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 7/18/02.
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