Claire is revisiting art school for the first time and she's kind of afraid, because she dropped out, her art career has faltered, so she feels a little bit embarrassed about showing her face again, just assuming that everyone else has moved forward in great leaps. In this scene, she sees that everyone is exactly where she left them.

The humor has to come naturally from the characters. I don't want to sit and try to think of a funny moment.

It's funny that in describing Jimmy's art here, I just came up with the idea that it's a seven-foot lollipop that lights up from within, and then it becomes a huge project for the art director to create it. I think it cost something like $20,000.

This is the first time she's seen Russell in a long time, and it's the last time we as an audience will ever see him. They had ended their relationship on a very poor note, and we didn't want to end it that way. So they reconnect, even if in a very small way.

I wrote this scene one way and Alan Poul gave me a note saying we should make it a bit more of a moment. The idea that she apologized to him.

We don't have to necessarily tie things up for the characters. But at least bring them to a place where we feel comfortable leaving them.

In this scene we have a slightly different take on Olivier. He usually can be such an antagonist to Claire, but at this point he relates to her as an equal, because he, too, is in a very slow artistic period. She actually finds some of the things he says very encouraging.