Steve Jobs Page #20

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JOANNA:

If I give you some real projections

will you promise not to repeat them

from the stage?

STEVE:

What do you mean real projections,

what have you been giving me?

JOANNA:

Conservative projections.

STEVE:

Marketing’s been lying to me?

JOANNA:

We’ve been managing expectations so

that you don’t not.

STEVE:

What are the real projections?

JOANNA:

We’re going to sell a million

units in the first 90 days, 20,000

a month after that.

STEVE looks at her for a moment and then smiles...

STEVE:

(pause)

Ho-ly-

JOANNA:

Yeah.

STEVE:

See? You wait long enough and-

JOANNA:

What’s more, 32% of the sales are

going to go to people buying a

computer for the first time and 12%

are going to people using some kind

of Windows machine--that’s what

Bill Gates has against you--and

it’ll be the fastest selling

computer in history.

(MORE)

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JOANNA (CONT'D)

You brought the company back from

life support after going through

the misery of laying off 3,000

people and cutting 70% of the

product line so Steven...it’s

over...you’re going to win. It

would be criminal not to enjoy this

moment.

STEVE:

I’m enjoying it.

JOANNA:

Make things alright with Lisa.

STEVE:

You know-

JOANNA:

Come on.

STEVE:

--I don’t like having less privacy

than other people have.

JOANNA:

Does being a multi-billionaire take

some of the sting off that?

STEVE:

No.

JOANNA:

All Lisa (did)-

STEVE:

(over)

All Lisa did was give her blessing.

Chrisann sold the house and--

JOANNA:

And Lisa could have done what? File

a complaint with the Department of

Housing and Urban Development?

How’s Lisa supposed to stop her

mother from selling her own house?

STEVE:

That I bought for the two of them.

JOANNA:

How’s she (supposed to stop her--)

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STEVE:

(over)

Voicing an objection would have

been a step in the right direction.

JOANNA:

You don’t think you’re having a

bizarre overreaction to a 19-year

old girl allowing her mother to

list her own house?

STEVE:

She could have tried.

JOANNA:

You’re saying this is really

because--how’s she supposed to stop

her mother--that particular mother-from

(living wherever--)

STEVE:

(over)

She gave Chrisann her blessing to

sell the house and she did it to

spite me.

JOANNA:

I don’t care if she put a pipe bomb

in the water heater, you’re gonna

fix it now.

STEVE:

She’s been acting weird for months.

She’s turned on me.

And JOANNA shoves STEVE-

JOANNA:

Fix it.

STEVE:

What the-

JOANNA:

Fix it, Steve.

STEVE:

Take it easy.

JOANNA:

Fix it or I quit, how ‘bout that? I

quit and you never see me again,

how ‘bout that?

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STEVE:

This is me, tell me what’s wrong

with you this morning.

JOANNA:

What’s been wrong with me for 19

years?! I’ve been a witness and I

tell you I’ve been complicit. I

love you, Steven, you know how

much. I love that you don’t care

how much money a person makes, you

care what they make. But what you

make isn’t supposed to be the best

part of you. When you’re a father,

that’s what’s supposed to be the

best part of you and it’s caused me

two decades of agony, Steve, that

it is, for you, the worst. It is a

little thing, a very small thing,

it’s not a big deal, fix it, fix it

now or you can contact me at my new

job working anywhere I want.

STEVE:

(pause)

I don’t happen to think it is a

little deal. She knew-

JOANNA:

No.

STEVE:

I bought the house for-

JOANNA:

No.

STEVE:

What do you mean “no.”

JOANNA:

I mean “no,” the house has nothing

to do with why you’re angry at

Lisa.

STEVE:

I assure you, the house has

everything to do with (why I’m--)

JOANNA:

(over)

Have you ever heard the phrase

“Reality distortion field”?

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STEVE:

Comes home from school, puts her

bags down, goes straight to her

friends’.

JOANNA:

Have you?

STEVE:

Yes.

JOANNA:

As it applies to you? As in

“Steve’s reality distortion field”?

STEVE:

You’re getting a little

prosecutorial and you’re crossing

some lines.

JOANNA:

I’ll cross whatever I please.

You’ve heard it?

STEVE:

I’ve heard it, I’ve read it, it’s

been sung to me by Joan Baez. What

you call a reality distortion field-and

I’m pretty sure you’re the one

who coined the phrase--is the reason

we’re here.

JOANNA:

I know that.

STEVE:

If I traded in my bank account for

a dollar on every time someone told

me something was impossible I’d

come out ahead.

JOANNA:

I know that too.

STEVE:

What’s the problem?

JOANNA:

My problem? It sure isn’t the

house.

STEVE:

Jo-

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JOANNA:

It’s that you told her you weren’t

going to pay for Harvard. That

child--that earnest, unironic kid-

STEVE:

She told you I wasn’t paying her

tuition?

JOANNA:

I should have hit you with

something heavy a long time ago.

STEVE:

Lisa told you I wasn’t paying her

tuition?

JOANNA:

Andy told me that.

STEVE:

Which one?

JOANNA:

Hertzfeld.

STEVE:

(pause)

How would Hertzfeld know?

JOANNA:

He wrote Harvard a check for twenty-

five thousand to cover the

semester. Isn’t that why-

STEVE:

Are you f***ing-

(pause)

He paid her tuition?

JOANNA:

Isn’t that why you just asked to

see him?

STEVE:

No I asked to see him about--this

is un-

JOANNA:

Did you tell her you weren’t paying

for college?

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STEVE:

Yes, because-

JOANNA:

How could you (do that?)

STEVE:

(over)

--because her mother, who was also

her landlord--Hertzfeld--I was

ranting! I was, you know, I was

just talking! You think I would--I

was pissed off because Lisa was

trying to piss me off, Joanna! That

was her intent! I don’t know how I

ended up the bad-

JOANNA:

You obviously scared the (hell out

of her).

STEVE:

Hertzfeld wrote a check to Har--to

pay for--is she here yet?

JOANNA:

I’m sure she is.

STEVE’s gotten himself together.

STEVE:

Can you have someone bring her

back?

JOANNA:

Yes. Thank you.

(beat)

You know, my grandmother used to-

STEVE:

I don’t give a sh*t, Yentl!

JOANNA:

I’ll have someone get Lisa.

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