This Whole World Is Wild At Heart

Every Single Thing In The World That Was Made By Anyone Started With An Idea. So To Catch One That Is Powerful Enough To Fall In Love With, It Is One Of The Most Beautiful Experiences. It's Like Being Jolted With Electricity And Knowledge At The Same Time.

I Like The Saying: "the World Is As You Are." And I Think Films Are As You Are. That's Why, Although The Frames Of A Film Are Always The Same - The Same Number, In The Same Sequence, With The Same Sounds - Every Screening Is Different. The Difference Is Sometimes Subtle But It's There. It Depends On The Audience. There Is A Circle That Goes From The Audience To The Film And Back. Each Person Is Looking And Thinking And Feeling And Coming Up With His Or Her Own Sense Of Things. And It's Probably Different From What I Fell In Love With.

I Learned That Just Beneath The Surface There's Another World, And Still Different Worlds As You Dig Deeper. I Knew It As A Kid, But I Couldn't Find The Proof. It Was Just A Kind Of Feeling. There Is Goodness In Blue Skies And Flowers, But Another Force - A Wild Pain And Decay - Also Accompanies Everything.

There's A Safety In Thinking In A Diner. You Can Have Your Coffee Or Your Milkshake, And You Can Go Off Into Strange Dark Areas, And Always Come Back To The Safety Of The Diner.

My Childhood Was Elegant Homes, Tree Lined Streets, The Milkman, Building Backyard Forts, Droning Airplanes, Blue Skies, Picket Fences, Green Grass, Cherry Trees. Middle America As It’s Supposed To Be. But On The Cherry Tree There’s This Pitch Oozing Out – Some Black, Some Yellow – And Millions Of Red Ants Crawling All Over It. I Discovered That If One Looks A Little Closer At This Beautiful World, There Are Always Red Ants Underneath.