John Irving: Everything has been talked about with someone.
Charles Lane: It was hot, explosive stuff when I wanted to do it.
Irving: A kind of hall of mirrors.
Lane: All of it was a dream.
Irving: It happens over and over again.
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Lane: There’s something for your little tape recorder.
Irving: I feel the same way. Unless you’re a ghost.
Lane: There were no conflicts, no egos.
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Irving: I don’t re-watch a lot of old movies. If you’re in the third person, you can skip ten or fifteen years.
Lane: You have people just constantly bustling in the background.
Irvine: You can’t do that in the first-person voice!
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Lane: We talked a little bit and I asked if he might consider being in one of my films, and he gave me his agent’s number.
Irving: Is it like the 1950s? No. [Laughs] But is the uptightness similar?
Lane: The answer is yes and no.
Irving: I think that’s a given.