My friend in the middle of the night 3 a.m. come to my house, because he was very busy and he know that I'm going to start shooting this movie, and he come to my house, he's a very good friend, he said, Jack you better think twice, you better don't do this movie.

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You know, I was a very kind of good little student, so I had my good old ballpoint pen and I circled all the words, and my pages were just masses of these little circles.

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