Redford said, “We all want the best screenplay possible, so why don’t you look it over, we’re all on the same side, we all want to make as good a movie as we can.” I said I couldn’t look at a word of it until I had been told I could by lawyers. And I left as soon as I could. I can make a case for my producer’s behavior. After all, this was now a famous book, Woodward and Bernstein were the media darlings of the moment, and we needed all the help we could get from the Washington Post. A pitched battle with Bernstein wouldn’t have been an aid to moving the project forward. I could go on longer
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