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May 12, 2006
Silent Whit Stillman: I have never met a billionaire I didn't like
Whit Stillman, last on screen with Last Days of Disco [pictured] and last heard from for an unproduced Western and an adaptation of the novel "Red Azalea," gets a little bit of Sterling anatomizing the snail's pace of his writing-directing career to the Guardian: "My idea for the new millennium had been to use competing scripts, with their differing deadlines and urgencies, to create the stop-start pattern I found so helpful in my day-job period." A script set in the Jamaican music scene 
"would alternate with other ideas to be kept under wraps. Finally, just in the last few weeks, that script has seemed to take its proper form - heartfelt apologies to any producer I rushed a draft to last winter. Any script with a date prior to May 12 2006 - please discard. So I now have a project to take to Cannes, and large or small parts of others in the trunk. But I will still be keeping my eyes open for the right day job. The other evening in Mayfair, I passed a high-end yacht brokerage - they were having a glass of champagne with clients - and that seemed like very good work for a slow screenwriter. Cannes itself has its share of enormous yachts - someone must be helping the very rich buy, sell or charter them." A career shift? "And, based there, one wouldn't have to look for accommodation when the festival rolls around. When I go next week I'll look into it. I have never met a billionaire I didn't like."
Posted by Ray Pride at May 12, 2006 01:07 PM
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