Hårdt, præcist Godard-citat, jeg ikke kendte, i samtale mellem to 8andre) helte, David Cronenberg og Jim Jarmusch, i (helten) Warhols gamle magasin Interview:
JARMUSCH: I don’t know. I get so depressed by these humans.
CRONENBERG: Humans can be very depressing, yeah. That’s why I really love babies, because they haven’t learned how to be destructive yet. [Laughs]
JARMUSCH: Now we’re getting a little negative. But when I get depressed by the state of the world, I try to appreciate the very strange phenomenon of having a consciousness. I think, “Life on earth is such a fragile, brief thing.” The fact that we’re even here talking to each other is remarkable, and therefore something to celebrate. My friend Joe Strummer from the Clash always used to say to people, “When you get really low, you only have to remember one thing: You’re alive!” So I try to hold that close. But lately, I don’t know.
CRONENBERG: You might be able to find some people who walk around thinking they’re dead. That’s the problem.
JARMUSCH: Right. Your films have tenderness and warmth in them in places, even though critics don’t always project those qualities onto you. The end of Crimes of the Future is tender, warm, and moving to me.
CRONENBERG: Our relationship with the critics, of course, is kind of contentious.
JARMUSCH: I like that quote—I think it’s Godard—it goes, “Critics are soldiers too, but they’re firing on their own troops.”
CRONENBERG: The idea that my filmmaking has always been cold was the critique of The Shrouds. I never felt that I was making cold films. I always wanted to avoid sentimentality and cliched emotional hooks, but cold? There are one or two critics who’ve jumped on that. And I ignore them, of course.
