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of an American detective novel
by David Goodis,
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I gave it all up.
:58:06
It seemed a ridiculous waste of time.
:58:10
I figured it was more honest
to make commercials
:58:15
than to make such a stupid film.
:58:19
I gave it some thought.
:58:23
I still think about what I could do,
:58:26
what the system would let me do.
:58:31
What kinds of films
I could try to make.
:58:36
I've been planning a political film
about France for three years.
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It's not that easy.
:58:47
I'm only now starting
to understand things
:58:51
that Brecht pointed out
over 40 years ago.
:58:55
Do you know his preface to Mahogany?.
:58:59
Isn't it brilliant?
:59:03
Political activity?
:59:06
No, not in the usual sense.
:59:10
For years,
I voted communist as a reflex.
:59:15
But I was never
a member of the party.
:59:18
Meetings for the Rosenbergs,
:59:21
demonstrations during
the Algerian War,
:59:24
May Day, Spain...
:59:29
Then there was May '68
and Czechoslovakia.
:59:34
It got to be too much,
and I couldn't do it anymore.
:59:41
Now?
:59:44
Now things are more clear-cut,
but more complicated too.
:59:51
Leftists? Yes, I know lots of them.
:59:54
In their eyes, I'm a democrat.
:59:57
They call me sometimes.
It doesn't much help.