Every year the Telluride Film Festival pays special tribute to three people who have made vital contributions to the cinema. In 1997, one of the people honored was Horton Foote, who had been chosen for his work as a screenwriter. My job was to write the note for the festival program and the handout for the tribute, but thanks to a revised printer's deadline, I had to do them in one day. It was the day my father, Morris Kawin, died suddenly in a hospital a thousand miles away, and these pieces, which were very hard to write, are in his memory. They are also dedicated to my good friend Horton, who died in 2009 at the age of 92, still working.