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“I first saw it when I was about fifteen… It hadn’t played in New York in fifteen years or something, hadn’t been seen since its initial release, and some theater brought it back for a week or two. So they made sort of a big deal about it, and the press didn’t write much about it, but I remember seeing an ad and went to see it. And it fucking flipped me out.”

“It isn’t the fight, the memos, or the words that are exchanged—it’s your art, it’s what you are going to be judged for when you are dead and buried, and it’s worth fighting for. Thank God that Terry fought for Brazil. Had ‘love conquered all,’ we would have been denied a real masterpiece.”

“I remember the first time I saw a character take a bullet in the eye, it was so unbelievably shocking. That’s the thing about Bonnie and Clyde. Obviously those things are harder to recapture in later years, but it was always thrilling… I also think it was an introduction for me into the beauty of violence in an abstract way, which I think is still a disturbing idea.”

“By the end, it leaves you very hopeful about love. In this particular relationship between these two particular people, it somehow manages to have them broken up by the end of it and yet leave you hopeful about love. Maybe that’s as perfect as it can get in real life.”