There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.
I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.
I'm doing music, and we both want to do some drama.
We have lasted this long close together, so we must have something going for each other.
I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
Don Was is a friend of mine; we've done projects together over the years.
I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together.
As far as I'm concerned I've never had a problem with anybody, no rivalry.
There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.