00:00This is Michael Imperioli, you're watching Life Minute TV.
00:12My manager, she asked if I was a fan of Jack Curry.
00:15I said, very much, for many, many, many years, which is really true.
00:19He's someone who has really made a big impact on my life, to be honest,
00:23you know, from the time I was about 18 years old.
00:25In his work, there's a lot of compassion,
00:27there's a lot of openness and understanding.
00:30The opportunity to read his words, you know,
00:32for a movie and voiceover was very appealing.
00:36I wrote a song about Jack Kerouac in 1987.
00:40Many people who were influenced by Jack's work were asked to be part of the film.
00:44I think what appealed to me was that there was this core group of artists,
00:49and that's kind of a fantasy.
00:50Artists tend to work very independently,
00:52and this idea that you could be part of this,
00:55to be on the inside of a really hip group of people
00:58that all share some of the same ways of looking at the world.
01:04Gosh, my producer, John Badsek, came to me and said,
01:07what do you think of Jack Kerouac?
01:09And I said, I didn't really bond with the book on the road,
01:13but I think there's something still interesting to be done
01:16about how do you reclaim the road for all the people who,
01:1965 years ago, couldn't go on it.
01:22And so that was really, from my standpoint,
01:24what I was, what I've been trying to do with the film.
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