Foote

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Written by Horton Foote — an ongoing collaborator of Duvall’s going back to the actor’s film debut in “To Kill a Mockingbird” — “Tender Mercies” has a stripped-bare quality, a simplicity and directness that only places its complex emotions in stronger relief.

From Los Angeles Times

Referring to the author of “Tender Mercies,” he said: “You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, a lot of people from New York don’t know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Horton Foote, who adapted “Mockingbird” for the movies and wrote “Tender Mercies,” became one of Duvall’s few lifelong friends in the industry.

From Los Angeles Times

“I could always tell he’d been with a different preacher,” Foote told The Times in 2006, “because he’d try out these different voices.”

From Los Angeles Times

His performance in Horton Foote's one-act play The Midnight Caller led the playwright to recommend him for the role of Boo Radley in the 1962 film version of To Kill a Mockingbird.

From BBC