Word: scripting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...appeared in since Titanic have not together grossed half of what the iceberg movie made domestically. She's always delighted to meet people who have never seen it. It's not that she's not proud of her biggest movie. She found a very early treatment of the script the other day, and she had written on the cover "I f___ing LOVE this!" It's just that it proved quite difficult to get off that boat...
...TIME: Before you got the script, how aware were you about conflict diamonds...
...DiCaprio: I'd heard whisperings. It was certainly out there in the public about what conflict diamonds were, and how people suffered as a result of natural resources being taken out of Africa. But I never understood the full story until I got this script and started doing research. I was pretty horrified about what went on in Sierra Leone in the late 1990s and how diamonds funded these warlords. Amnesty International projected around four million people lost their lives as a result of these diamond sales...
...even the shrewdest movie executives, picking projects that will resonate with today' s finicky audiences is a hit-or-miss proposition. Those who are mining the 2006 box office results for ways to raise their average might consider lifting a page from the Sony Pictures script...
Addressing a packed forum, Abizaid, who spoke without a script and sat throughout his talk, said the rise of Islamic extremism and the Arab-Israeli conflict were the major obstacles facing the region...