那是 1996 年,我正处于职业生涯的十字路口。我一直在好莱坞当作家,过得很不开心。大约六个月前,我提出了写一本书的想法,书籍包装商乔斯特·埃尔弗斯 (Joost Elffers) 希望我为它写一篇文章。
(It was 1996 and I was at a crossroads in my career. I had been working in Hollywood as a writer and was very unhappy. I had pitched an idea for a book some six months earlier, and the book packager, Joost Elffers, wanted me to write up a treatment for it.)