“Jessica is certainly an actor of that caliber and those smarts that we will sometimes bat around those ideas,” he said of his leading lady.

What emerges is the unflattering portrait of a powerful director who nursed a dark, uncontrollable obsession with the icy-blonde leading ladies of his films.

"Diane Keaton is one of the most beloved leading ladies of American film," said Sir Howard Stringer, chair of the AFI Board of Trustees.