:17:00
Or maybe some cement
and ask for your footprint.
:17:07
It's OK, OK. I'm going.
:17:09
Just a minute, you.
You're a writer, you said.
:17:13
- Why?
- Are you or not?
:17:16
- That's what's on my Guild card.
- And you have written pictures?
:17:21
I sure have. Want a list of my credits?
:17:24
I want to ask you something.
Come in here.
:17:27
Last one was about
Okies in the Dust Bowl.
:17:30
You'd never know
because on screen
:17:32
the whole thing
played on a torpedo boat.
:17:43
Intimate, isn't it?
:17:47
The wind gets in that pipe organ.
I ought to take it out.
:17:51
I'd teach it a better tune.
:17:53
Young man, tell me something.
:17:55
How long is a movie script
these days? How many pages?
:17:59
Depends whether
it's "Donald Duck" or "Joan of Arc".
:18:01
This is to be a very important picture.
I've written it myself. Took me years.
:18:07
Looks like enough
for six important pictures.
:18:09
It's Salome's story.
I'll have DeMille direct.
:18:12
- DeMille?
- We made a lot of pictures together.
:18:16
- And you'll play Salome.
- Who else?
:18:21
I didn't know
you were planning a comeback.
:18:24
I hate that word. It's a return.
:18:27
A return to the millions who've never
forgiven me for deserting the screen.
:18:31
- Fair enough.
- Salome. What a woman.
:18:35
What a part. The princess
in love with a holy man.
:18:39
She dances the dance
of the seven veils.
:18:41
He rejects her, so she demands
his head on a golden tray.
:18:45
Kissing his cold, dead lips.
:18:49
- They'll love it in Pomona.
- They'll love it everyplace.
:18:53
Read the scene
just before she has him killed.
:18:55
Another writer
may steal your material.
:18:58
I'm not afraid. Read it.