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The characters in

Minnie and Moskowitz...

is like they have become invisible...

and nobody can see or reach

their real selves anymore.

A Minnie Moore with all the values

in the world but no place to put them.

An empty bed,

a fixed-up apartment, a job...

a boyfriend who is married

who comes once in a while.

Her affair is with Seymour Moskowitz.

He's a footloose, practical,

uncomplicated American dreamer.

A Seymour Moskowitz

has his own style.

He's been tugged at and pushed like the rest

of us and has emerged like we all wish to be.

At the onset of

A Woman Under the Influence...

Gena and I were speaking about

the pictures we were gonna make.

We were talking about

how difficult love was...

and how totally, terribly without merit

a love story would be in 1971.

So, when I started writing the script,

I kept all those things in mind...

and didn't want the love story easy.

This film deals with

the serious problems of a man and woman...

who are alienated from each other

by their backgrounds.

Ignorant of their problems,

yet totally in love.

This picture is one of the ones

that interests me the most.

Part of the fun was to imagine a self-contained

world, different from the one I live in...

to move into it and live in it.

Cosmo Vittelli is a man who proclaims

that he wants to live in style and comfort.

But for Cosmo,

comfort means living on the edge.

For seven years, he has run

and ruled a club he doesn't own.

But his reign is a sham, sustained only

by monthly meetings with a loan shark.

The picture says something to me-

that we might sell anything mindlessly.

Even our own lives.

Opening Night is about an actress

on the edge of a breakdown.

Someone who doesn't

go along with the crowd...

and accept every conceivable

formula to life...

that is fed to us 24 hours a day...

on the radio

and on television and in films.

And this actress appealed to me.

I think in all of us there's a theatrical

leaning where we have many selves...

and one of the selves is full of duty

and responsibility...

and the other self is a personal self,

which has to be fed also.

And people who deny that are unhappy.

And an actor is really representative

of the conflict of those selves.

I wrote the story to sell-

strictly to sell.

It was no great shakes,

but I liked it and Gena liked it.

I wrote a very fast-moving,

thoughtless piece about gangsters.

And I don't even know any gangsters.

Gloria has a wonderful actress...

and a very nice kid who's neither

sympathetic nor nonsympathetic.

He's just a kid.

He reminds me of me.

Constantly in shock,

reacting to this unfathomable environment.

Many themes from the earlier films

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