HENRY JAGLOM: I have good news and bad news. I’ll tell you the good news first. Jack said yes to The Big Brass Ring, but he won’t reduce his salary. I said, “Jack, it’s Orson fucking Welles. Imagine it’s 1968!” He said, “If this were 1968, I would do it for nothing. I really want to do it, but it will totally throw me into the art movie world again and I’ve been working to get out of that into the big, mainstream things, where they pay me millions and millions of dollars. If I do a picture for half that, how do I explain to the next person that I’m demanding four million?”
