From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. If you want to know who to blame for the success of Netflix,

listen no further than the man sitting across from me, Eric Roth, who is, if you're an actor-turned-director

or one of the most demanding directors around, he's the guy you call.

He's the guy that David Fincher goes to.

And Michael Mann, and the actor-directors you work with include Robert Redford and Kevin Costner and Robert De Niro and his newest,

the adaptation of a star is born, Bradley Cooper.

First of all, thank you so much for doing this, Eric.

Thank you.

Always glad to be with you.

You know that.

You know, I feel exact same way about you.

And you've done so many adaptations and adaptations that really on the face with it don't really lend themselves to adaptation.

If you look at Benjamin Button or what became Munich or the insider, it's almost hard to find,

because there's so many people in all these things.

Yes.

It's hard to find the drama in it.

You tend to be attracted to pieces that involve a large number of big cast, don't you?

I never thought of it that way. Probably true because it would scare me if I thought about it, how to be a big cast.

You have original voices for all sorts of characters and each of them has a wallet that they can pull out.

I always think about the theme is really where I start, and then I'll go to plot or character.

So it's the themes of the things that interest me the most.

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