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CINEMA CAN A D A • o I'm sitting with two good friends, concentrate on the fan mail. My friends would can't cook and ifl had a baby I'd probably forget with the fact of cockroaches, blindness, and Alex and Sheila, under a parasol on the say, "Oh Patricia, of course you've got a lot of it in a supermarket somewhere. In journalism I menstrual blood when it's not expected; films edge of a very fashionable body of incredibly deep things on your mind, you're a always felt too restricted by the facts to actually can soothe the horror of the terrible cleanliness water. The debate is as intense as the major motion picture famous superstar tell a good story (when I did tell a good story it in the barracks in Dachail, of skin diseases, of the sky is blue. The focus ofthe discussion renowned celebrity now. " (I've nice friends .) had only a nodding acquaintance with fact) . way a rape is never really over, of the way alove iss a bottle of Dom Perignon that has just arrived But I knew the problem was reaching And I'm afraid of spending my life just story always ends tragically - either the love dies courtesy of a distributor who wants the film we melodramatic proportions when I, full of sound maintaining my life, not making anything, not or the people who love die, of the way some had just made. We aren't thirsty, but it's and fury, would sit down to write the next great even a mess . I'd lose my little mind ifl couldn't people only ever have one good idea, of the fear expensive, they can see we're not drinking it, gift to cinema - designer pen and paper on the tum around, point and say, hey, look what I did, of peaking early, of nuclear war. All these nasty but we've got 350 interviews that afternoon and right, computer on the left, glass of wine in the what do you think? creatures that crawl around in the scummier we don't want to fall asleep but it's Dom middJe- and as soon as I would start to think of I need to make a difference. I need to have parts of my psyche are more manageable whenl Perignon, but I hate champagne, but it's such a What to write, there it was again. "Pourquoi?" some effect. I'm like a little kid who's discovered have the ability to shoot them. But, impressive gesture, etc. etc. All the big issues - So I'd take a different tack, and I'd think ofHow that her hand is actually connected to her mind more. professional protocol, social responsibility, I should write, or Who my characters should be, and when she pushes her spoon it falls off the F~yonedayalittlebird Western wastefulness - are ricocheting around but alas, the same haunting question. Why? highchair, it makes this tremendous noise, named Jane 5iberry solved the table. Why? Why? creates an emotional reaction and somebody the pourquoi problem.I Suddenly, overhead, we hear a low rumbling At first I thought it was vindication. Ail those actually picks it up, so I do it again. I'm almost She was just going along noise, how can I describe it? It's like thunderous times I sat at dinner parties surrounded by droll 30 now so I play with the toys of the cinema, and singing her strange and applause, no, maybe it's more like the sound of contemporary wits who watched with instead of moving spoons I try to move people. wonderful things when distributors' feet stampeding to bid on the rights fascination and disgust as my comments would There's a very distinct rush I feel when I see the suddenly she said,1 for I've Heard the Mermaids Singing. No, that's not dribble down my chin and onto my plate and sit pictures move before my eyes the way they did ". .. something it, there's something up there, it's a bird, it's a . there, congealing (my comments not the wits), behind my eyelids, when I see a whole group of catches me and I plane, yes, it's a plane, a small one, pulling until someone else would merdfuily rescue me people frozen in reverential silence as we film an have to catch it behind it a huge, mind-bending question. A from the limelight - at those times I'd say to instant of compassion (Uri Barbasch), when that back .. " That's question so great that even the Dom Perignon myself, "Just watch me, maybe I can't talk so bass note strikes at just the right moment, when issue was overshadowed : "Pourquoi good as youse guys but give me enough time people laugh, when people speak or write and I filmez-vous ?" On the same banner, behind the and I'll write something so ... nice, and then I'll know they've felt what I've felt - these little question was the word "Liberation. " I speculate make it into a movie so incredibly .. nice that proofs that I've had an effect overwhelm me. that this message was brought to us by some sort you just can't stand it. " The desire to do The sensation defies words. Maybe that's why of Third World delegation who still believe something great or even just unusual consumes so many films are about sex and death and love (aren 't they cute) that film can bring about me at the times of my greatest humiliations. Like and war, these things have their own power. social/political liberation. '1 am later informed when my superiors at The Journal told me that the You don 't even have to do too much to make that "Liberation " is the name of a French daily good news was that they only had to cut one them hit the audience between the eyes. newspaper that had asked this question of person from their ranks that year and the bad Another related reason for making movies is hundreds of directors from around the world, news was that it was me. Or when I notice with the slaying of monsters. (David Cronenberg many of whom had assembled there for the 1987 disturbing frequency that there's something knows about this one.) If you've filmed a Cannes Film Festival. Their answers had been different about mybod yand those lovelyones in monster it's not quite so difficult to face published in a special magazine edition of their the magazines. Let's see then, that means that anymore. When you've seen it in Make-Up and paper. But I, for obvious reasons, wasn't asked. filmmaking is indirect self-improvement or eating bagels at the Craft Service table somehow So Irealize that big question in the sky is still, for possibly secondary seduction. I suppose it's no it doesn 't carry the same threat. Words and me, unanswered . accident that somebody in my film said "To scenes on little pieces of celluloid can magically POllrqlloi filme z-vous) For the next year, I'm make something beautiful is to be beautiful subdue the terror of, say, public.artistic tormented. I'm sitting in a lovely hotel room forever.
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