“What are their goals?”
“They have no goals!!”
“When I do my musical, I’m sure it will be a two-screen film.”
In March 2003, I saw my first movie (Arsenic and Old Lace). This makes ten thousand. Around the age of six, my best friend was Oscar Dolan & he frequently would tell me that my name, reversed, spelled "Selim." I had just about forgotten that fact until seeing Viens je t'emmène, in which a character's name is Sélim. Movies preserve memory, & therefore invoke it -- whether that be personal, national, or cosmic memory. I do not remember all ten thousand movies…
"What authors influenced you? Freud?"
"Who?"
"How was Él received in Mexico?"
"It was more successful than Chaplin. We split our guts laughing."
"If I had as many guns in France or Spain as I have in Mexico, they'd put me away for 30 years. I have about 80."
"The relationship between the characters is very Spanish, isn't it?"
"No, it's universal. It could be in Russia. It could be in Pittsburgh. If I were paranoid, that's what I would do if my wife were unfaithful. Maybe I'd sew up my wife too."