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Building 'Betty'

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Writer: "He's suffocating her."

Writer: "What if three people spike the punch?"

Horta: "That's funny."

Writer: "Walter is a more sympathetic character."

Writer: "Be careful we don't slap the puppy."

Horta: "Are we keeping track of the ratio of effeminate males to bitchy females?"

Horta spends an hour in the room, then he must go work on final sound ("At 18 minutes 14 seconds, the music steps on Betty's dialogue"), then select some cast members ("Hmm, he looks more Sears than Fifth Avenue"), and then and then. You get the picture.

"It's a million decisions a day. You know it's not always black and white," Horta says, getting almost philosophical. "It's a lot of decisions with a lot of gray."


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