00:00What happened?
00:01I got old.
00:17I didn't expect so much hope in one of your movie. What happened?
00:23I got old.
00:29You know, there's a song at the end of the film that a friend of mine wrote that we recorded.
00:40And it's called Space and Time.
00:43And the lyric of it, did you see the film?
00:46Yes, of course.
00:46The lyric is, I never want to leave this world without saying I love you.
00:53And I guess that's the theme of the film.
01:01Yeah, I agree with you.
01:03I thought that maybe, to me, maybe it's a simple answer,
01:07but I think that your movie says that love can help us improve.
01:12Do you really believe in it or it's a thing that we see just in the movies?
01:18I don't know how realistic that is.
01:23But it is certainly a force and to the degree to which we can participate in our own forgiveness and
01:42love others and forgive ourselves.
01:50I mean, that's really the challenge of life.
01:54The gardener at the beginning of the movie says that gardening means believing in the future.
02:02Yeah. Do you still believe in it or not?
02:04Well, believing that things will happen.
02:09You know, that seeds will grow.
02:14A gardener believes that.
02:17I don't believe that for this world.
02:24No.
02:26No.
02:28I...
02:28We won't.
02:31None of us will be here in another 79 years.
02:35But neither will Venice.
02:39And in your movies, in your screenplays, you often write about people who have got an obsession.
02:49Why is it so important to you entering people with an obsession?
02:58Well, it's not so much...
03:06It's a way...
03:09In card color, she asked him,
03:14If you don't play for money, why do you play?
03:18And he said, it passes the time.
03:22And a lot of what these people are doing are passing the time.
03:27They're getting through one day after another, waiting, waiting for something to happen.
03:34Waiting to bloom, waiting to be transformed, hoping that when that time comes, they'll spot it and participate in it.
03:47So this film today is full of that.
03:51Now the time had come.
03:53And it comes with this young girl who enters his life.
03:57And it takes him a while to realize it in her.
04:02But it is the seeds of change.
04:07And he's just been waiting.
04:09That's the reason why you do movies?
04:12Because you have to pass time?
04:16Well, I mean, that's just one way to put it.
04:20But it's certainly a more interesting way to pass time than to play slap machines.
04:29Did you ask Siburni Weaver if she was a goddess before asking her to play in this movie?
04:36No, no, no.
04:40She happily agreed.
04:42And these movies I make are not, they have very tight budgets and short schedules.
04:56So you need to have the cooperation of artists who are willing to make sacrifices.
05:04Okay.
05:06I love how the main characters are really attracted to each other.
05:13They have to know each other.
05:15But in real life it's so difficult to really make that first step.
05:21And trying to know another people.
05:24How can we do that?
05:26Well, is it really possible?
05:29Is it possible for this young black girl to forgive a man like him?
05:35Probably not.
05:37But it is possible to imagine it.
05:42It's possible as an analogy.
05:45As what would happen.
05:48Just like great literature from Sophocles through Dante.
05:58It's analogies.
05:59It's a what if, you know.
06:01And this is a kind of what if.
06:03I don't know whether this could actually happen.
06:08But the contemplation of it, the forgiveness of it, is one of those things that art can do.
06:18Thank you so much.
06:19Thank you.
06:20I really love the movie.
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