All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing.
All I can do is point out what the facts are, ... All I want to do is prove he was bad, he's racist and did it and is going to do other things in the future.
The ending shot of 'Queen Christina' with Greta Garbo is amazing. She's at the head of the ship, and she's been through so much, and the camera gets so close to her face. That really sticks out for me.
The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.
The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.
The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.
The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.
