The nominated writers will break down select pages that were essential to the stories they were telling.
It was about trying to find the simplest setting for that.
Some things come to you intellectually, and some things come to you emotionally and just spontaneously.
This is one of those things that just lodged into my head.
That was more a feeling than an intellectual point on a characters story arch.
And Kevin, hes busy.
Hes up, hes down, hes up, hes down.
Finally, at the end, theres no one else, and he sits down.
Hes just there, and its clear that hes not going to get up again.
Of all the circular conversations theyve been having, now its almost like something is going down a drain.
Theres a spiral, but the circumference is getting smaller and smaller.
Now its right there in front of them, and its about that song.
It was only vinyl 45s, and this guy, this hipster San Francisco dude put on this record.
I dont know what I was going through at the time.
Maybe I was going through a breakup or something, but it just knocked me down.
It was one of those things, again, where it didnt come to me intellectually.
The song had wormed its way into my heart.
I just love that theres all this talk these guys have been doing.
Its a circular conversation, but its not a big talk out.
But there is: its with their eyes, because there is nowhere else to look.
They have to sit right across from one another to look each other in the eye.
Thats the currency of whats occurring in that moment.
It was even the currency of that moment in the script.
[Things like f it] are for the reader.
It cant just all be brain.
Its got to be a little bit of blood.
I knew that we had to do something to help reorient the audience.
Its why the two longest shots are immediately at the beginning of the diner.
Black pulls up, and we watch him put his shirt on.
We watch him walk all the way over to the door.
Then he walks in, and the cameras drifting.
Were watching as he sits down and Andre takes the plate.
Then finally, Andre walks over, and we cut right into Andres face.
Once were in this diner, society doesnt exist.
Its just me and another human being.
If you want to choose to not open, its a choice.
Its not the result of outside pressure.
