Where's Whit?

As a fan of screenwriter/director Whit Stillman’s witty film Barcelona, I’ve wondered what happened to him.


So I tracked down this Guardian article. Part of the reason is the creative process. An excerpt:

I have a happy novelist friend who operates on the principle "first thought, best thought". My own experience has been "first thought, unbelievably stupid thought". If a producer wants something cliched, forced and unfunny that's also weird and meandering ... yes, I can turn that in within the contractually mandated 12 weeks. Writing my three films so far, Metropolitan, Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco, I found that however much I might have wanted to "hurry", it was only through a fitful stop-start process, with long gaps between versions, that I could come up with anything worth holding on to.