00:00I was never sure where you complete me came from. And then it occurred to me when I heard the
00:05song
00:05Court and Spark by Joni Mitchell. I'm a huge Joni Mitchell fan. And the lines in that song had stuck
00:11with me that whole time. When Tom Cruise first read the script, I was there with him and he got
00:17to that line and he read it out loud. You complete me. And I said to him, you know, we
00:23may not do
00:23that one. It may be a little too sentimental. It may be a bit much. And I remember he just
00:28looked
00:28at me. I think I more of begged you, Cameron. I said, Cameron, please. I love this writing.
00:34Yeah. I said, give me a shot. If you don't like it, then edit it. But let me, I at
00:39least want to act
00:40it. You know, the whole monologue, I love the whole monologue. And you were like, I don't know. And I
00:46was like, please just let me act it. If you don't like it, you can cut it in the editing
00:49room. I could
00:50not wait to play that scene at the end of the movie. I was like, you got it. You got
00:55it. And the time
00:57came for him to do the line. And it was about two in the morning. I looked around and even
01:02the most
01:03grizzled grips and technical guys, men mostly, were choking up with you.
01:10A little later that year, I said to him, what was in your mind when you did you complete me?
01:17He didn't pause a beat. He said, you know what? I wanted to say I love you to my wife
01:22in a movie.
01:23And that is exactly what you complete me is.
01:33We live in a cynical world. A cynical world. And we work in a business of tough competitors.
01:53I love you. I love you. You complete me.
02:04Shut up.
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