I doubt it.
I have a quick personal story about Sayles.
He used to live in Hoboken. When he moved out, my brother moved into his apartment. One day, a very fancy-looking invitation arrived, addressed to Sayles. In violation of federal law, my brother opened it.
It was an invitation from Martin Scorcese to the world premiere of the refurbished print of the movie "El Cid" that Scorcese had paid to restore.
The special guests of honor at the premiere were the movie's stars, Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren (this was before Heston became persona non grata among liberal Hollywood).
The story of the machinations we went through after that to insure our entry to the premiere and party is a bit long, but suffice it to say, that night, my brother and I were drinking free booze with Marty, Charlton, Sophia, John Turturro, Marisa Tomei and other illuminati.
And we watched the entire three hour movie with Heston and Loren sitting one row behind us watching their 30-years-younger selves on the screen.
It rocked! Thank you Sayles, you commie scum! That was the nicest thing you ever did for me.
LOL, great story!
Great story!
Never, never let me find out that what you just stated is false. You rock, dude. I don't know that anyone on FR will ever be able to unseat you as the coolest FR on Earth.
As for Sayles, he is just a sad pathetic person who is constantly trying to measure up to his more famous brother Soupy.
It's a great low budget dark comedy/Sci-fi.