11:12 to 12:55: Is
it true, David Cronenberg, that during the shooting of Cosmopolis, you
were saying to Robert Pattinson - who's the lead: "If you understand
anything to what we're doing, we're lost."
David: I did say that, I said,
because he said: 'I have no idea what I'm doing with this movie and what
this character is.' And I said: "But you are doing everything perfectly
correct." And therefore, it would be boring and it would lack
spontaneity , it would lack inventiveness, if you knew before you made
the film everything you need to do in the film. Also, I've said many
times that you make the film to understand why you wanted to make the
film. You don't even know why you wanna do this film. And I was
explaining to him, because he's a young actor and he did not have the
experience, that they are many ways to understand something. It's not
always a sort of logical intellectual way of understanding. It's more
intuitive, it's visceral. And he has wonderful intiution and mainly when
I said that, I was really saying to him: "Trust your intuition, you
really have wonderful acting intuitions, you must trust them."
at 28:24 to 28:58 David: Both
DeLillo and Burroughs have wonderful, very funny, very strange, very
bizarre dilaogue, and wonderful to hear actors speak. So I'm sure I have
absorbed Burroughs from a very early age. The rythym of their speech is
very american, I'm Canadian and so when I hear american speech from
DeLillo, from Burroughs it's foreign to me, it's foreign dialogue.
Canadians don't speak that way. So just as Robert Pattinson, who is
English, has to do an American accent when he is in the movie, I too as a
writer and a director, I am actually doing an american accent.
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