You know, some things come right out of the blue.

You're not expecting them and you don't know what's going to happen and you keep on playing for something good, you know, in a career.

I played, you know, last 30-some years in a career trying to break through

as everyone does. That's one of the things you hope when you start. And over the past 25 years,

you know, my career has been fading and fading. And maybe six or seven years ago I ran into, I hear from a guy who I know, a low budget

producer that he had just bought a real good script from a guy named Quentin Tarantino.

He said, you never heard of this guy, but it's called True Romance.

And he said, this Tarantino, that I was supposed to hire you, me.

He wrote a part for me.

I never heard of this guy.

And I read it, and it was great, and I thought I was going to have a good part there.

Instead, the picture got snatched from this guy and went to a bigger producer, Tony Scott,

and was made into a big picture, and Christopher Walken played that part.

Then, sometime later, I read a script by this same Tarantino and it's also good, it's

Reservoir Dogs, and I'm going to read for him, and I go to read for him for the part that eventually went to Lawrence Tierney.

And after the reading, he walked me out and he said, listen, he said, I've seen your stuff

and I know what you've done.

And he said, this might not work out.

He said, but one of these days I'm going to use you.

Fast forward to last year sometime.

I walked into a restaurant and I saw him and I said, hi, and what are you working on?

And he said he was adapting Rum Punch, Elmore Leonard's novel, to a movie.

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