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:35:06
Nerves twitching, please.
Fingers.

:35:08
Just the fingers,
just the fingers.

:35:16
Heartbeat.
:35:20
- The name of the film is Coven.
- It's pronounced Coven.

:35:23
What else could it be pronounced?
:35:25
"Coven." That's
the proper pronunciation.

:35:29
No, "coven" sounds like "oven,"
and that just doesn't work.

:35:37
Not unless you want to put
an umlaut or something over the "O."

:35:40
A what? Hold on a second.
Those two dots?

:35:43
Yes. Possible.
:35:49
There's something cinematic about it.
It's like a stage or something.

:35:54
You look all around, man.
The graveyard is like a stage.

:35:57
Then all of these dead people too.
It's like-- they can't bitch at you.

:36:01
You don't have to hear their opinions.
They're there though.

:36:04
They're here as decent
human beings, finally.

:36:09
Here you are equal.
:36:10
Parents be coming after you because
you have a movie camera in one hand...

:36:13
and a beer in the other, man,
they wouldn't tolerate--

:36:15
I mean, that was and is
the joy of life.

:36:18
That wasn't tolerated, man,
when you were 14, 15 years old.

:36:21
They'd start coming after you...
:36:23
so you'd get out into the cemetery
with your beer and your film camera...

:36:27
and you were one with the world
and equal with the world.

:36:29
- It was a vast work field.
- He'd always say...

:36:32
he was gonna become a millionaire
and all of us would be jealous of him.

:36:36
It didn't really make us
envious of him.

:36:38
It just made-- at least me, anyway--
just feel kinda sorry for him...

:36:40
pity him, that he felt that way.
:36:43
Honestly, I thought he was gonna grow up
to be a stalker or serial killer...

:36:46
or do something where he would try
to plan someone's death.

:36:50
And, unfortunately, sometimes
I had the idea that it might be mine.

:36:55
What were the films that influenced you
most when you were younger?

:36:58
Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living
Dead and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.


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