00:00Ok, sì, oggi sono, ma poi andrò a casa e la mia famiglia dirà come, guarda, guarda i lavori.
00:08No, no, no, no, no.
00:38I do believe, I was really touched by that line when I read it.
00:42I'm very involved with an important botanical garden in New York.
00:48I really believe that the garden, you know, brings something to people that's very special.
00:56It brings life to them and to children, you know, to see the miracle of life and how things change.
01:04It's a great metaphor for our world and I love the questions it asks about this garden.
01:12Is it a safe place? Is it a refuge? Or are there serpents? You know, things like that.
01:20So I think it works as a real place and as a metaphor.
01:24Maybe it sounds a little bit cheesy, but I think that this movie tells us that the answer is love.
01:31You are in a few Paul Schrader's movies in which there's really so much hope.
01:36Do you believe that it's true? Love is the answer or is it a thing that we can see only
01:40in the movies?
01:41You know, I think that with Paul's last three movies, what surprised me about it, because I think of him
01:48as making sort of violent films,
01:50was that these men had come through these war experiences and were waiting to be punished, expecting to be punished.
01:59And what redeems them is that they treat people, they want to be of use, they want to help this
02:08young soldier,
02:10they want to, you know, help this young man.
02:14And in this case, you know, Narvel sees a woman, a young woman who's in this violent world that he
02:22was once part of and tries to rescue her.
02:25Really, you know, when Norma says, help my niece, she's making him her knight to go and rescue this damsel
02:32in distress.
02:33He's not supposed to fall in love with the damsel.
02:36He's supposed to come back to the queen and say, my lady, I've done this for you.
02:41It doesn't work out that way.
02:42I have to ask, are you a goddess?
02:45No.
02:46You have to say yes.
02:48Okay, yes.
02:51Today I am, but then I'll go back home and my family will be like, come on, wash the dishes.
02:57No.
02:58Oh, yeah.
02:59Okay, thank you so much.
03:00Thank you.
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