He was nothing like Blunt, but he was a very, very reticent Englishman.
In a memoir that is often very reticent (a whole bad marriage goes by in a blink) he reveals perhaps more than he intends when he tells us, "I confess that the moment when I recognized that I could envisage a real relationship with someone who was not a potential recruit to the party was the moment I recognized that I was no longer a Communist in the full sense of my youth".
The film is based on Mary Mapes' book, so getting Mary's book was always the cornerstone of it, which was a difficult thing to do only because Mary was very reticent to have a movie made.
I would be very reticent to put a lot there because of the resistance to it, there's a negative side.
"You get a picture of a job market where employers, nervous about undertaking new labor costs in the face of weak demand, are very reticent about hiring," said Jared Bernstein, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal research group in Washington.
It's a quietly absorbing film centred around two very reticent central characters: Keaton's depressed hitman and Kelly Macdonald's shy office worker with a mysterious past.
As a result, he said, the F.D.A. might be "very reticent at this point to do it again".
He found an environment, he says, "in which people felt very reticent about sharing information, sometimes for personal reasons, and sometimes because they weren't in the same building".
But then it became clear to me that there is a "teacher in hiding" that should also be recognized -- Emila Heller, a dear friend who has participated in residential Zen practice for 37 years, and who is very reticent to hold herself up as a Buddhist Teacher.
I wanted to make a film that would be called simply "Being Jewish…" It seems to me that being Jewish is very different from being German, or being a writer, and that's why, these days, I'm very reticent about using the verb "to be".
