Though he has already (insanely) guaranteed me a one hundred percent recovery, I want to confirm the details. I ask him if I will ever make a film again.

He says, “Absolutely you will make a film again. I’ll put it this way. You’re not going to be totally better until you make a film again. Because that is part of what makes you, you. Right now, you are bartering between different areas of your life, and that must stop now. All areas are equal.”