Interview With Edith Ivey For James Kicklighter’s “The Car Wash”

The script was so perfect, Edith Ivey said, that every line on the page was exactly how she would say it in real life. 'I would have thought that no one under the age of 50 could have even thought about writing this material. You’d never know it was his first project. What impressed me about James was that he was tremendously organized. He knew exactly what he wanted, that’s why I had no idea this was a new venture for him.