Daniel Winters: The script was transforming every day because no one knew what movie they wanted it to be.
Malice: And when you look at the outcome, it gets no realer than that for me.
Winters: It’s the greatest work of God or Man in 2 billion years.
Malice: That’s what’s up, man, that’s what’s up.
Winters: The dead silence at the premiere still haunts me.
•••
Malice: It was a shock. It was always a threat that you lived with. You heard a lot of rumors, but you just never thought that it would happen. And when it finally did, it was like a huge pit in your stomach.
Winters: But I do have a mystical belief that something dies when you put a raw idea into the ether too soon. I kid.
Malice: I try not to. Let’s talk about that later.
Winters: Where’s the laughter?
Malice: That is the most unfair question in the world to me.
•••
Winters: Take a deep breath and prepare to be disappointed.
Malice: I think pretty much that’s life.
Winters: Even I can’t Scrooge such a simple and pure response.
Malice: I just, I have a different message, and I’m really focused on what I’m focused on, you know what I’m saying?
Winters: I hung up and went from there, never thinking I would be forced to ever explain any of this to anyone.