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And he said, "I feel like you're spiting me."
I said, I said "Do you think I took this job to spite you?"
I was writing the script as they were filming
all that time in Italy...
and I'd work like mad all day long...
and then dash down to the bar
around midnight to hand in the next day's scenes.
And Humphrey had just about moved into the hotel bar...
...where he and John...
They drank every night.
And I mean drank, you know, like famished water buffaloes.
I'd only just handed them the final scene
when the bellhop told me I had a phone call.
And it was my stepfather, Joe Capote
calling to say that my mother had died.
Well I... I flew home to New York, terribly distraught...
but when I got to the apartment...
I could see that Joe was in even worse shape than I was.
He grabbed my hand and he said to me: "Talk".
Talk about anything. You know?
I mean, any subject in the world.
Don't worry whether it'll interest me or not. Just talk...
so I won't break down.
He couldn't bear to be alone with his thoughts.
It was too painful.
It's been a hard couple of weeks for Alvin.
He and Herb Clutter were good friends from church.
Oh, come on, Alvin. These are good people.
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