So, did you get into big fights with \One Night Stand\ director Mike Figgis and Arthur Hiller?
Not at all. Mike said he wanted to do a polish on Stand, and it turned into a major rewrite. It was no longer mine, so I took my name off it. Arthur and I were hand in hand throughout the [Smithee] shoot. He did a beautiful job directing, but when he put it together it didn’t move. [When] I cut 22 minutes off it…Arthur felt I had betrayed my own work. But Arthur is the kind of man who the day after he took his name off the picture showed up in the editing room and said, ”I’m here if you need help finishing it.” Were you happy when Mike Ovitz took a fall? I simply wish him the best. I don’t take any pleasure in another human being’s problems…. I think the problems he had with me had to do with a personal hubris which is injurious to others and often comes back and injures the person himself. Maybe it will be a sensitizing experience. Was the fallout from ”Showgirls” a sensitizing experience for you? I was shaken on an intimate, personal level. I wasn’t sure I still had faith in
