There's Not A Lot Of Good Movies

If You're Willing To Put Two Thoughts Into A Picture Then You're Already Ahead Of The Game.

And Dressed Her [madonna] Up Like A Turkey. After I Read That Stuff, I Thought Long And Hard About What One Would Do To Dress Someone Up Like A Turkey. And I Nailed It. I Figured You've Got To Get Out The Playtex Glove, Blow It Up And Put The Glove Over The Head.

In Short Form I'll Say It Was An Approach To The Family And To [author] Jon Krakauer That Then Led To Me Seeming To Rise To The Top Of The Heap Of Several Filmmakers That Were Trying To Get The Rights. And By Top Of The Heap I Mean In Terms Of Being Somebody That Was Trusted To Do It As They Said They Were Going To Attempt To Do It And That This Way Of Doing It Would Be Something They Would Be Willing To Allow.

A Child Gets A Fever In The United States And It's High Enough And Sustainable Enough, All Of Us Can Bring A Child To An Emergency Room. Most Haitians Never Had That Opportunity. They Didn't Have The Emergency Room To Bring Them To. Virtually Every Time Your Child Has 102 Fever, You Wait For It To Die And You Have No Clean Water To Give It.

A Clearer And More Conventional Narrative Would Have Helped The Film Without, In My Opinion, Lessening Its Beauty And Its Impact. Frankly, I'm Still Trying To Figure Out What I'm Doing There And What I Was Supposed To Add In That Context! What's More, Terry Malick Himself Never Managed To Explain It To Me Clearly.