None of this is meant to denigrate Monash or Foreman, who, I suspect, were terribly important to the finished product. What I’m saying is this: Screenwriters don’t—at least this is true for me—deal all that much with producers. They hire us, we have meetings, they make suggestions, I go off and rewrite—that kind of thing. I have worked for some famous producers—Joseph E. Levine, Robert Evans—but the crucial aspect of their work does not often come in contact with mine.
