GQ: Could you be with a woman who did yoga?
Werner: “Of course not. Of course not. I think there should be holy war against yoga classes. It detours us from real thinking. It’s just this kind of…feeling and floating and meditation and whatever. It’s as tourism in religions. People all of a sudden becoming Buddhist here in Los Angeles.”
GQ: And you feel yourself undignified, being a filmmaker?
WH: “It’s always borderline. You have to look at yourself, and you know there is something very, very strange about what you are doing.”
GQ: When you look at other filmmakers, do you think they are engaged in something that—
WH: ”Always, always the same. And you can straightaway, when you see films on filmmakers—they’re always, always embarrassing. Including me. I cannot elude that embarrassment, either. I do not feel it as deeply as others should feel who have an ego problem and play the king on the hill, the genius behind the camera. That’s an additional embarrassment. But when you look at movies made about filmmakers, they are without exception embarrassments.”
GQ: I suppose the counterargument should be something about this glorious role as a grand storyteller, the spinner of illusions.
WH: “There is nothing glorious about making a film. It is an endless sequence of banalities.”
GQ: With a magical goal?
WH: “Yes. But shooting a film itself is nothing but banalities. [Then, as though reluctantly, he continues.] However, there’s very rare moments where I get the feeling sometimes I’m like the little girl in the fairy tale who steps out into the night, in the stars, and she holds her apron open, and the stars are raining into her apron. Those moments I have seen and I have had. But they are very rare.”
For our first public appearance, balcony or not, I’ll kiss you way more than twice. Just saying.
I have had and will continue to have no desire to watch Jersey Shore. But I have watched all of these videos with RELISH.
Let’s make a pact to properly dispose of toenails. Gross? Maybe, but hey nobody said this would be easy.
YES. Anything else is, if not a Deal Breaker, is cause for Extensive Discussion. Or the placement of 14 more small decorative garbage cans around the house. Up to you.
