So the director Schneider found the script "fairly baffling when not downright inscrutable" and "loved it even when [he] wasn't completely sure what Sam meant."

So the director Schneider found the script "fairly baffling when not downright inscrutable" and "loved it even when [he] wasn't completely sure what Sam meant." But "Schneider supposedly considered Keaton not smart enough to get what Beckett was up to." Fun. Though it seems to me that Keaton was clever enough to stage a little Beckett-esque drama when first meeting the playwright.