My Father and the Man in Black2012

Johnny Cash:
[Clearing his throat] Now there's a couple of things I want to say to you that I need to clear the air completely with you on.

Saul Holiff:
Uh-huh.

Johnny Cash:
First of all, I knew, way before we even did the film that there's a lot of people - maybe the MAJORITY of the people - are not gonna buy what I am saying in the film or what this film is sayin". So, you see, I don't really have to be told that because I know that.

Saul Holiff:
Well, when I make a statement like that, that's what's known as trying to be honest, because first of all, if you take a hundred people, twenty- five of them are of Christian faith and twenty of them are Moslems, and ten... you know, that's what I meant.

Johnny Cash:
But, but I knew that originally, see?

Saul Holiff:
Yeah.

Johnny Cash:
Well, I just felt like you didn't have a lot of interest in this film.

Saul Holiff:
I'm one of the few people that try to say to you exactly what they think without meaning to be harmful. I'm not trying to break things down, I'm just trying to temper things a little bit by saying, not exactly what people think you want to hear.

Johnny Cash:
Yeah, right.

Saul Holiff:
I find that a lot of people tell you exactly what you want to hear.

Johnny Cash:
Yeah. I know that. I don't need that either.

Saul Holiff:
And that doesn't help.

Johnny Cash:
No it doesn't. [Original Source: Telephone call between Johnny Cash and Saul Holiff, July 1972]