LYDEN: From the film about the AIDS quilt to "Howl," which starred James Franco as Allen Ginsberg; you did the film about Harvey Milk. This seems like a bit of a departure from these other films. Tell me a little bit, Jeffrey Friedman, whose idea was it to take on the story of Linda Lovelace.
FRIEDMAN: Well, the idea preceded our involvement with it. The producers had been developing a script when we came on.