The kids said, We’re going to shoot a movie! and then they affected Southern accents and started yelling a lot and that was the whole movie.

It took them seven years to realize they hated each other. Figuring this out provided relief. I mean, I don’t even like myself, he admitted.

He thought he’d written it down, and then he realized he dreamed it. Give it another layer, she said. Because she was thinking movie rights.