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I've been doing this
for 50 fucking years.

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Being photographed and doing movies...

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After a while I'm tired of it.

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You think you give something away
by talking about yourself?

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No.

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Don't give anything away.

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Blue moon...

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you saw me standing alone...

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without a dream in my heart

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without a love of my own.

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I feel so bad, I got a worried mind.

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I'm so lonesome all the time.

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Since I left my baby behind
on Blue Bayou.

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Save a nickle, save a dime.

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Work until the sun don't shine.

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Looking forward
to happier times on Blue Bayou.

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I'm going back some day

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come what may to Blue Bayou.

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Where the folks are fine

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and the world is mine on Blue Bayou.

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Where those fishing boats
with their sails afloat

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if I could only see

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that familiar sunrise

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through sleepy eyes

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how happy I'd be.

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Gonna see my baby again.

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Gonna be with some of my friends.

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Maybe I'll feel
better again on Blue Bayou.

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I'm going back some day

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come what may to Blue Bayou.

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Where you sleep all day

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and the catfish play on Blue Bayou.

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I gotta get in character
and have a smoke.

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Now, do I have any lines?

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I don't want any lines.

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How about doing nothing.

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How about silence.

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Something must have
cut your tongue off.

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Either that or...

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...you've got something to hide.

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I'm gonna call up this number...

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and see if they can
tell me who you are.

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I don't think
Harry is a man of big words.

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And I respect that actors
can't open up that much

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when they're just on their own

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as themselves.

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If you use your life
and you use pain in your life

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and you use mistakes in your life.

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It's hard if you use that for a part

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to then come out
with it in a conversation.

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It's something sacred
in the actors heart

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that allows him
to do that and pull from it.

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I think the actor needs
to protect that inside himself.

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It means how far away I am
from the land where I was born.

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Intense nostalgia invades my mind.

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You couldn't sing that in English.

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Here I am alone and sad
like a leaf on the wind.

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I wanna cry, I wanna die.

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I feel so much for my home.

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Oh land of the sun,
I'm sighing to see you.

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Now I'm far away,
I live without light, without love.

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Here I am alone and sad
like a leaf on the wind.

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It's the theme song in Paris, Texas.

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¡Que lejos estoy del suelo
donde he nacido!

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intensa nostalgia
invade mi pensamiento;

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y al ver me tan solo y triste
cual hoja al viento,

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quisiera llorar,
quisiera morir de sentimiento.

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¡Oh Tierra del Sol! Suspiro por verte

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ahora que lejos yo vivo
sin luz, sin amor;

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y al verme tan solo y triste
cual hoja al viento,

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quisiera llorar,
quisiera morir de sentimiento.

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It's a blues song.

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Homesick.

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I see it as...

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...when you're truly at home...
there is no more suffering...

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no more leaf on the wind

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no more crying.

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Crying to get back
to where you come from.

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And do you know where you come from?

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No, there's no answer to that.

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Do you have memories
from your childhood?

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There's a lot of personal things
I don't want to talk about... Like...

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Things with my mother...

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Some things I don't wanna get into.

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You mean talking
about your mother or father?

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Both.

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Your mother would sing to you?

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Yeah, she did.
She taught me Irish songs.

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Ultimately there's
no answer to any of it.

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It all just happens. It's what is.

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We think we're in charge
of our lives. We're not.

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Be still -

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and know.

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And not know.

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Kitty, kitty...

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All that kitty crap.

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Jones!

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Jonesy?

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Meow... meow...

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God, do you believe
we're going around the sun

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in 17'000 mph, is that what it is?

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Is that what you heard?

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That makes me nervous, man.

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17'000 miles an hour?

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And there is nothing
I can do about it, man.

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Damn, look at that!

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That is a cup of coffee.

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Damn, Harry,
it's like a swimming pool!

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This is great.

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It's Yuban.

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Nice flavour.

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How did you meet?

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Harry and I?
I got a list of all the films.

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How many did we do. Two or three?

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Harry, I'm gonna tell you.

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I loved "Straight..."

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"Straight Story".

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Harry Dean was in
"The Cowboy and the Frenchman",

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"Wild at Heart",

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"Hotel Room",

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"The Straight Story",

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"Inland Empire" and
"Twin Peaks, Fire Walk With Me".

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We've done five.

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 things together.

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We're a team.

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Yeah.

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This is your first line.

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For what. This speech?

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No, coming in.
When you come in he says:

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"Freddie and I had a tea
at the congressary".

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And then you say this.

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Dreadful?

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Yeah.

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That's already in the script.

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But it's just "dreadful".

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You can do the big gesture
if you want.

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Dreadful!

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Dreadful. In the British sense.

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Dreadful!

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Yeah.

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There you go!

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If you look
at all the characters he's played.

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Just these...
I mean he's been in 170 films.

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Over 200.

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Over 200.

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250 maybe.

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Sure, sure, sure.

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I've lost count a long time ago.

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You see many different characters.

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He's got this quality...

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It's funny talking about him,
weird but...

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He's got this innocence

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and naturalness that's really rare.

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and he says a line and it's just real.

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It's so phenomenal.

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And what he does in between the lines

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is incredible.

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A lot of people you can see them,
they're not really listening.

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They're not within the thing
in between the lines.

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You see them start
thinking about the next line.

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Just a subtle little thing.

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Not Harry.
You watch him in between the lines,

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he is there.
Whatever there needs to be.

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He's there.

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Sit down, Al.

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Did you ride that thing
all the way out here to see me?

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I did, Lyle.

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Jack Nicholson called me.

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He said:
Harry, I got this part for you.

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He said his name is Blind Dick Riley,
he wears a derby patch over one eye.

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He said: I don't want you to
do anything in the movie.

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I was already thinking along
those lines anyway.

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Just playing myself.
Just play Harry Dean Stanton.

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He said:
Let the wardrobe do the character.

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That solidified my
whole approach from then on.

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How would you describe yourself?

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As nothing. There is no self.

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How would you like to be remembered?

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Doesn't matter.

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What were your dreams as a child?

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Nightmares.

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I spent my first 18 years
on one of these damn things

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working for my uncle
that raised me.

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And I worked myself
cross-eyed too.

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About the only thing
I had for distraction was this dog.

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Now I had the dog
since I was ten years old.

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And uh he shot it for sticking
its tongue on a pad of butter.

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So, I stayed one more night.

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And I killed his seed bull.

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I rustled every damn horse he had,

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including a racer that I sold
as a cow pony to an Indian rancher.

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And I took the whole damn Remuda.

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And I come within a hair's breath of
sending his sorry hide to kingdom come.

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I mean I was that close to shooting
that son of a bitch in the brain pan.

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Where did you grow up, Harry?
- Kentucky.

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I was born in a little town
called West Irvine, Kentucky.

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West Irvine, not Irvine

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Irvine was bigger,
it had 40 people in it.

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In the depression
we moved to North Carolina.

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He had a 300 acre tobacco farm.

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Near where, in Durham, around Durham?

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There's a little place called
White Rock. It's now no more.

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It was only a huge general store
with a post office in it.

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That was the town.
- Got you.

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It's not there anymore.

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And did you go to the war?
- Yeah.

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What service were you in?
- In the Navy.

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What kind of ship were you on?
- LST, landing ship tanks.

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We carried troups,
but we ende up as an ammunition ship.

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Where in the Pacific?

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Battle of Okinawa.

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So what are
the other questions there?

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Have you ever been married?
- No.

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The next question was:
How did you meet your wife?

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Did you ever wanted to get married?

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I love the line:
I was married two weeks once,

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we tried everything, it didn't work.

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Did what?
- Did you ever want to get married?

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I think I proposed 2 or 3 times.

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Two that I can recall.

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Thank God they said no!

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I was doing it because I thought
you're supposed to get married.

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Not because I wanted to.

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I just never felt
psychologically wired or

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capable of being
in an institution of any kind.

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I can see that Harry.

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2 or 3 times girls said
they were pregnant

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just out of brief affairs.

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Sad story.

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Did you ever check on it
to see if you...

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I never had a DNA test, no.

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But did you ever wonder about it?

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One kid I'm pretty sure is mine.

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I've been in touch
with all of them off and on.

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But I never really bonded
with their mother or them either.

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I've just been a loner all my life.

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It's they way it happened, I...

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I learned this from Harry:

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Ancient pond...

00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:42.680
Frog jumps in...

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Old pond!

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Old pond.

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Ancient pond!

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No, old pond.

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You said ancient.

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You've had it wrong
all these years?

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I swear I learned it from you.

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You told me ancient.

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No, it's old pond, frog jums in

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Splash.

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Jesus Christ!

00:20:08.280 --> 00:20:10.680
Never broke into a car,
never hot-wired a car, kid.

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Never broke into a trunk.

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I shall not cause harm to any vehicle
nor the personal contents thereof

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nor through inaction let that vehicle and
personal contents thereof come to harm.

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It's what I call the Repo Code, kid.

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Don't forget it.
Etch it into your brain.

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Not many people
got a code to live by anymore.

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Hey. Look. Look at that!
Look at those assholes over there.

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Ordinary fucking people.
I hate 'em.

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Me, too.
- What do you know kid?

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See. An ordinary person spends
his life avoiding tense situations.

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Repo man spends his life
getting into tense situations.

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Assholes. Lets go get a drink.

00:20:51.320 --> 00:20:53.920
Okay, Harry Dean is so old I love him.

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I love old people,
I hate young people.

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Spremne.

00:20:59.080 --> 00:20:59.960
Tally ho!

00:21:01.040 --> 00:21:02.440
So who are you now?

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Ron. Don't call me Don.

00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:07.800
It pisses me off.

00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:09.000
What do you do?

00:21:11.320 --> 00:21:15.680
I'm actually in a space program now.

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Are you an astronaut?
- A special division of a space program.

00:21:19.960 --> 00:21:22.360
Michael, give me
a vodka and cranberry juice.

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I mean a tequila and cranberry juice.

00:21:24.880 --> 00:21:26.400
Yes, Sir.
- Please.

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Moline!

00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:31.080
Harry Dean!

00:21:32.040 --> 00:21:33.440
Harry Dean, I'm talking to you.

00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:34.960
Yes, go on.

00:21:35.120 --> 00:21:36.720
Why don't you
get married and stay home?

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Get what?
- Get married and stay home!

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Can't I just stay home?

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I'm dying.

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Michael,
I'll have a cigarette with you.

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Santa Monica Boulevard.

00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:01.680
We are friends for 42 years.

00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:02.520
42 years.

00:22:02.680 --> 00:22:04.520
Yes, Sir. I know you 42 years.

00:22:05.840 --> 00:22:08.200
What year did you start here?
- 68.

00:22:08.440 --> 00:22:12.040
68 and it opened in 64, right?
- Yes, Sir.

00:22:14.040 --> 00:22:15.760
And you've been coming since 64.

00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:18.320
You're one of the first
customers in this place.

00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:21.760
And you are great people, we love you.
You know that.

00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:24.440
I know.

00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:28.120
I'm jealous.

00:22:28.280 --> 00:22:30.480
You got more girls
than I did, those days.

00:22:31.360 --> 00:22:32.280
I don't know why.

00:22:32.800 --> 00:22:35.880
I've settled down since then.

00:22:36.120 --> 00:22:37.360
Okay.

00:22:42.920 --> 00:22:45.800
You don't talk too much.
But something you say lots.

00:22:46.440 --> 00:22:49.000
You are simple and easy.
You don't talk too much.

00:22:49.600 --> 00:22:50.240
I don't, huh?

00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:52.760
No, but when you say something,
it means something.

00:22:56.760 --> 00:22:58.360
That's good to know.

00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:02.280
Who is that?

00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:04.600
Get her in the movie. Hey!

00:23:05.160 --> 00:23:07.320
Hey! She's gone.

00:23:10.760 --> 00:23:13.400
Another night in paradise.

00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:24.040
Closer walk with Thee.

00:23:24.920 --> 00:23:29.560
Grant it, Jesus, is my plea.

00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:34.160
Daily walking

00:23:36.040 --> 00:23:39.880
close to Thee.

00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:43.840
Let it be, dear Lord,

00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:46.720
Let it be.

00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:05.520
Through the days of toil that's near.

00:24:06.600 --> 00:24:12.880
If I fall, dear Lord, who cares?

00:24:15.320 --> 00:24:21.920
Who but Thee my burden shares?

00:24:22.120 --> 00:24:29.640
None but Thee, dear Lord,
none but Thee.

00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:46.040
Straight ahead.

00:24:49.480 --> 00:24:51.320
Everybody talking at me...

00:24:53.240 --> 00:24:55.640
This is a heroin song, by the way.

00:24:56.040 --> 00:24:58.240
Written by Fred Neil.

00:24:59.440 --> 00:25:02.760
It was inspired
by Luke Askew, an actor.

00:25:05.120 --> 00:25:07.320
Everybody talking at me...

00:25:08.200 --> 00:25:10.400
Can't hear a word they're saying.

00:25:12.120 --> 00:25:16.880
Only the echoes on my mind.

00:25:19.760 --> 00:25:21.840
People stop and staring.

00:25:23.600 --> 00:25:25.560
I can't see their faces.

00:25:28.040 --> 00:25:33.200
Only shadows of their eyes.

00:25:35.360 --> 00:25:38.120
I'm going where the sun keeps shining

00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:41.680
through the pouring rain.

00:25:43.640 --> 00:25:50.800
Going where the climat
suits my clothes.

00:25:51.360 --> 00:25:54.480
Backing off the north east wind.

00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:59.040
Sailing on a summer breeze.

00:25:59.800 --> 00:26:04.600
Skipping over the ocean like a stone.

00:26:07.560 --> 00:26:09.760
Everybody Talking at me.

00:26:11.600 --> 00:26:14.240
Can't hear a word they're saying.

00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:19.760
Only the echoes of my mind.

00:26:22.600 --> 00:26:28.760
And I won't let you
leave my love behind.

00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:39.920
No, I won't let you
leave my love behind.

00:26:42.360 --> 00:26:49.640
And I won't let you leave

00:26:50.520 --> 00:26:54.640
my love behind.

00:27:01.960 --> 00:27:03.480
Pretty song, huh?

00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:10.160
Straight ahead.

00:27:13.520 --> 00:27:16.360
That's what my old man used to say
when I was a kid:

00:27:16.640 --> 00:27:18.920
Go straight ahead
til you hit somehting.

00:27:28.080 --> 00:27:30.240
This light is a black hole.

00:27:32.360 --> 00:27:34.960
I was 14 in my aunt's house.

00:27:36.040 --> 00:27:38.920
I got terrified out of nowhere.
I was alone.

00:27:39.640 --> 00:27:42.200
I started thinking
there's nothing out there.

00:27:42.560 --> 00:27:43.560
It's a void.

00:27:43.960 --> 00:27:47.680
Terrified. I had to call somebody
to see if I was still connected.

00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:54.320
Our family wasn't close.
My mother and father.

00:27:55.600 --> 00:27:58.200
It was hard because
they didn't get along.

00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:02.720
Finally they got a divorce
when I was in high school.

00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:10.880
But we got close
before she passed away.

00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:15.480
I sent her a little ceramic heart
when she was in the hospital.

00:28:16.880 --> 00:28:19.080
The nurse at the hospital broke it.

00:28:19.320 --> 00:28:21.680
They sent it back
and I glued it back together.

00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:24.360
Mended the heart
and sent it back to her.

00:28:24.960 --> 00:28:27.440
That was our last memories.
That was nice.

00:28:50.200 --> 00:28:53.000
Oh the night's are so still,

00:28:56.120 --> 00:28:58.680
not a baby will cry.

00:29:01.840 --> 00:29:05.520
Not a chill wind will blow

00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:10.400
disturbing the sky.

00:29:13.040 --> 00:29:16.520
But there's no peace in me,

00:29:19.120 --> 00:29:21.760
I'm burning for you.

00:29:24.920 --> 00:29:27.640
I'm walking the floor,

00:29:30.760 --> 00:29:34.600
in the devil's shoes.

00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:42.240
When I get my rewards,

00:29:42.600 --> 00:29:45.600
I will bring them to you.

00:29:48.520 --> 00:29:53.920
I will ask for your love,

00:29:54.440 --> 00:29:57.720
and swear mine is true.

00:30:00.360 --> 00:30:04.080
Will you cast me aside,

00:30:06.280 --> 00:30:09.320
and see me no more?

00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:16.120
Or will I win your heart

00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:21.960
when I get my rewards?

00:30:24.120 --> 00:30:27.400
They say that your hand

00:30:30.040 --> 00:30:33.120
can never touch mine.

00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:38.960
That a poor boy can't hope

00:30:41.840 --> 00:30:45.320
for a woman so fine.

00:30:47.760 --> 00:30:52.000
But I will work till I fall,

00:30:53.640 --> 00:30:57.040
determined to win.

00:31:00.120 --> 00:31:03.080
Driven by need

00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:08.840
to see you again.

00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:48.800
Once you got famous,
was your mother pleased?

00:31:49.040 --> 00:31:52.240
Oh yeah. They were all impressed.

00:32:48.480 --> 00:32:50.360
I had this idea of a man,

00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:55.480
completely estranged from the culture,

00:32:55.600 --> 00:32:58.000
coming back from the desert,
from Mexico.

00:32:58.200 --> 00:33:01.000
Couldn't speak, no identity,

00:33:03.560 --> 00:33:05.160
a complete unknown.

00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:08.080
He appears out of nowhere.

00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:13.040
We don't know anything about him.
And then he begins to...

00:33:13.520 --> 00:33:15.840
piece together some mysterious past.

00:33:16.360 --> 00:33:19.080
Slowly, hopefully
over the course of things

00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:20.480
it makes some kind of sense,

00:33:20.560 --> 00:33:22.880
having to do with
his brother and his family,

00:33:23.360 --> 00:33:25.320
and things that
happened to him in the past.

00:33:25.520 --> 00:33:29.160
Wim wanted me to play the character,
and I said I didn't really want to.

00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:32.040
I thought it was enought
to write the damn thing.

00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:34.880
We wrote it for 4 years or something,

00:33:35.800 --> 00:33:38.040
and sometimes had the money,
sometimes didn't.

00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:42.720
It was a long process.

00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:46.520
Finally I said:
What about Harry Dean?

00:33:46.800 --> 00:33:48.920
He'd been known up to that time

00:33:49.040 --> 00:33:52.160
as a character actor,
wonderful character actor.

00:33:52.840 --> 00:33:55.320
And everybody said:
Can he play a lead?

00:33:55.440 --> 00:33:59.160
I said why not, he's a character actor.
I mean, what's the difference,

00:33:59.280 --> 00:34:00.760
he just plays the lead.

00:34:01.280 --> 00:34:03.080
I had a lead actor

00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:06.920
who had been in movies for 30 years

00:34:07.080 --> 00:34:08.680
and never played a lead.

00:34:09.600 --> 00:34:12.760
Harry's big concern
every now and then was

00:34:13.040 --> 00:34:16.840
that he wasn't good enough.

00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:21.840
Of course everybody
confirmed that we loved him,

00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:24.160
that he was fantastic
and nothing was wrong.

00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:26.520
But Harry had... sometimes...

00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:31.640
30 years of playing supporting parts

00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:34.280
got to him and he had doubts

00:34:34.360 --> 00:34:36.320
that he was good enough
as a leading man.

00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:38.840
Every now and then that hit him

00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:41.240
and we had
to drive it back into his head

00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:43.240
that he was perfect.

00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:49.920
Harry allowed himself
to be very vulnerable

00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:54.320
in that part,
and let us look into his soul.

00:34:54.920 --> 00:34:56.840
And Harry is fragile.

00:34:57.000 --> 00:34:58.320
Harry is vulnerable.

00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:02.040
People are not used their leading men
to open up so much.

00:35:02.160 --> 00:35:05.240
I think Harry touched
a lot of people's hearts,

00:35:05.360 --> 00:35:08.160
because he dared to be fragile.

00:35:21.520 --> 00:35:23.000
Harry is an actor's actor.

00:35:23.120 --> 00:35:25.880
Every actor who
ever sees him admires him

00:35:26.160 --> 00:35:29.280
for his craftsmanship
and what he does and who he is.

00:35:30.600 --> 00:35:33.480
So you don't have to be a lead
to be well thought of.

00:35:34.760 --> 00:35:37.040
In fact I think
it's probably better not to be.

00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:45.200
He's also one
of those actors who knows

00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:46.640
that his face is a story.

00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:48.280
And he doesn't have to...

00:35:51.200 --> 00:35:53.480
He just has to be in that thing

00:35:53.640 --> 00:35:55.200
and his face is the story.

00:35:56.040 --> 00:35:57.920
You read all kinds of things into it.

00:35:58.240 --> 00:36:00.520
Harry told me a little bit
about his life and

00:36:00.720 --> 00:36:02.200
I realized we found an actor

00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:05.080
who'd really be fully
behind the character

00:36:05.200 --> 00:36:08.360
who also understood a lot

00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:11.960
about a man who had

00:36:13.440 --> 00:36:16.040
left behind
his family and his little boy.

00:36:17.240 --> 00:36:21.400
Harry really in a big way
with his whole persona,

00:36:21.520 --> 00:36:23.960
with his whole biography,
with everything he had

00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:25.640
put himself behind the part.

00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:31.200
And Harry, in an almost scary way,
got into character.

00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:33.720
Do you remember your little boy?

00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:35.640
Well he's with us.

00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:39.920
He's been living with Anne and me
ever since you disappeared.

00:36:41.720 --> 00:36:45.200
We didn't know what else to do,
so we just kept him.

00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:49.360
One day he was just
standin' at the door.

00:36:50.720 --> 00:36:53.920
All he could tell us was,
somebody brought him there in a car.

00:36:55.800 --> 00:36:58.200
He didn't know
what had happened to you, or Jane.

00:36:59.600 --> 00:37:02.440
So, we tried everything
we could think of to find you or Jane,

00:37:03.400 --> 00:37:05.280
tried to locate her -
she vanished too.

00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:08.840
We didn't know what else to do.

00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:25.080
Harry did so many parts in this city
and in the movie industry

00:37:25.720 --> 00:37:27.560
where he didn't have
to show who he was.

00:37:28.160 --> 00:37:30.000
I remember Harry in impossible parts.

00:37:30.120 --> 00:37:33.600
I remember him
in Young Doctors in Love.

00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:35.000
Stuff like that

00:37:35.600 --> 00:37:40.360
where acting was just a front
and had nothing to do with him.

00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:42.720
When you prepared
to play Travis what did you do?

00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:45.880
He didn't talk
for about a 1/2 hour in the movie.

00:37:48.360 --> 00:37:50.120
So I did nothing.

00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:55.720
I didn't prepare, I just didn't talk.

00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:07.080
A student from UCLA,
working for nothing on the movie,

00:38:07.200 --> 00:38:08.280
just to learn.

00:38:08.720 --> 00:38:10.680
We were talking once and I asked her:

00:38:11.440 --> 00:38:13.640
I said, I wonder why he doesn't talk.

00:38:14.600 --> 00:38:17.520
And she said:
I did that when I was a teenager.

00:38:19.960 --> 00:38:22.000
You mind telling me
where you're headed, Trav?

00:38:26.240 --> 00:38:27.320
What's out there?

00:38:29.720 --> 00:38:31.800
There is nothing out there.

00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:36.280
I said, could you hear
other people talking?

00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:37.160
Oh yeah.

00:38:37.200 --> 00:38:39.240
My mother would say
I know she can talk.

00:38:39.600 --> 00:38:41.240
But she wouldn't talk to anybody.

00:38:42.160 --> 00:38:44.080
So finally I asked her, I said:

00:38:44.680 --> 00:38:45.920
So why didn't you talk?

00:38:46.720 --> 00:38:47.680
And she said:

00:38:48.280 --> 00:38:51.560
I was afraid if I said anything,
I would loose it.

00:38:53.520 --> 00:38:55.080
Freak out.

00:38:56.880 --> 00:39:00.120
And I could have used that more.

00:39:01.240 --> 00:39:05.000
In the movie.
But I had already done it.

00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:09.080
But just not saying anything
is already a powerful statement.

00:39:09.200 --> 00:39:11.480
Not talking. Being silent.

00:39:11.760 --> 00:39:13.400
Silence is very powerful.

00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:18.800
But when you talked it was great.
That monologue

00:39:19.560 --> 00:39:23.040
Yeah. That was Sam Shepard's writing.
Brilliant writing.

00:39:27.120 --> 00:39:29.120
Suffering.

00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:37.720
He... this girl and he was jealous.

00:40:02.400 --> 00:40:03.880
I knew these people...

00:40:04.640 --> 00:40:05.960
What people?

00:40:08.040 --> 00:40:09.440
These two people.

00:40:14.640 --> 00:40:16.440
They were in love with each other.

00:40:19.720 --> 00:40:21.920
The girl was very young.

00:40:22.080 --> 00:40:25.400
About seventeen or eighteen, I guess.

00:40:27.080 --> 00:40:30.000
And the guy was quite a bit older.

00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:34.640
And he was kind of raggedy and wild.

00:40:36.120 --> 00:40:37.960
And she was very beautiful. You know?

00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:40.280
Yeah.

00:40:41.120 --> 00:40:44.800
And together, they turned everything
into a kind of an adventure.

00:40:46.120 --> 00:40:47.400
And she liked that.

00:40:49.080 --> 00:40:53.960
Just an ordinary trip down the grocery
store was full of adventure.

00:40:56.480 --> 00:40:59.160
And they were always
laughing at stupid things.

00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:01.000
He liked making her laugh.

00:41:04.720 --> 00:41:07.360
And they didn't much care
for anything else.

00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:10.600
Cause, all they wanted to do
was be with each other.

00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:14.600
They were always together.

00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:17.200
Sounds like they were very happy.

00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:22.040
Yes. They were. They were real happy.

00:41:25.160 --> 00:41:30.400
He loved her more
than he ever felt possible.

00:41:37.080 --> 00:41:41.440
He's searching for freedom
like everybody, I think

00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:44.240
Searching for liberation.

00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:50.080
To be free of everything.

00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:55.120
I think that's what everybody wants.

00:41:57.640 --> 00:41:59.440
Freedom from the fear of death.

00:42:00.600 --> 00:42:05.040
Freedom from facing
the void without being afraid.

00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:11.000
I think everybody is afraid.
Most people.

00:42:12.200 --> 00:42:14.760
It's fear
you're gonna loose something.

00:42:15.200 --> 00:42:16.320
It's attachment.

00:42:18.520 --> 00:42:20.440
Everybody is attached.

00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:24.280
But you're trying not to be attached.

00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:28.120
That's love, when you're not attached.

00:42:28.200 --> 00:42:29.520
That's real love.

00:42:35.240 --> 00:42:40.520
In the twilight glow I see her.

00:42:42.280 --> 00:42:47.600
Blue eyes crying in the rain.

00:42:49.480 --> 00:42:55.520
When we kissed goodbye and parted

00:42:56.280 --> 00:43:01.920
I knew we'd never meet again.

00:43:03.680 --> 00:43:10.160
Love is like a dying amber.

00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:16.600
Only memories remain.

00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:23.800
And through the ages I'll remember

00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:30.520
blue eyes crying in the rain.

00:44:01.040 --> 00:44:07.880
And when we meet again up yonder

00:44:09.200 --> 00:44:14.360
we'll stroll hand in hand again.

00:44:16.360 --> 00:44:22.480
In a land that knows no parting

00:44:23.400 --> 00:44:28.400
blue eyes crying in the rain

00:44:30.520 --> 00:44:39.320
Blue eyes crying in the rain.

00:44:42.560 --> 00:44:44.560
That's Rebecca's favorite song.

00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:50.040
I left her crying in the rain once.

00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:51.840
What did you do?

00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:53.520
What did you do?

00:44:54.040 --> 00:44:56.080
I don't know... A lot of things.

00:44:56.960 --> 00:44:58.120
Many things.

00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:01.160
How long were you together?

00:45:03.320 --> 00:45:04.800
About a year and a half.

00:45:05.720 --> 00:45:07.040
And did you live together?

00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:09.040
Yeah, she lived up here.

00:45:11.800 --> 00:45:13.080
And then what happened?

00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:15.080
She left with Tom Cruise.

00:45:17.520 --> 00:45:19.200
I got her in a movie with Tom Cruise

00:45:19.320 --> 00:45:22.520
and she ended up
with Tom for two years.

00:45:23.880 --> 00:45:25.320
Risky Business.

00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:27.680
Unapt the title.

00:45:30.640 --> 00:45:32.160
How did you feel about that?

00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:38.760
I didn't realize
how attached I was to her.

00:45:39.400 --> 00:45:41.400
I was heart broken.

00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:48.080
Everybody evolves in their own way.
There's no answer to it.

00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:54.360
I didn't commit.

00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:59.120
Go out and drank and looked for women.

00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:01.840
That was my life style.

00:46:02.240 --> 00:46:03.480
Womanizer.

00:46:05.480 --> 00:46:06.960
It's all a movie.

00:46:07.560 --> 00:46:09.680
Including this conversation.

00:46:11.160 --> 00:46:12.560
Nobody knows the ending.

00:46:18.480 --> 00:46:20.280
It was hard for Harry
to come to terms

00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:22.240
with the fact
that Sam and I in the end

00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:25.120
were both adamant
that the best ending was

00:46:26.240 --> 00:46:28.440
and the most heroic effort
was for him to

00:46:28.560 --> 00:46:32.840
leave and let his son
and his wife be together.

00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:34.840
And that was almost
a condition for them

00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:37.200
to be able to be together
that he stepped away.

00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:39.280
And I always thought of it as a

00:46:40.200 --> 00:46:42.160
beautiful act of love on his behalf.

00:46:43.040 --> 00:46:45.600
And of course Harry knew
what I meant,

00:46:46.160 --> 00:46:50.840
but somehow in his heart
he really wanted us to find a twist

00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:57.880
to give a little glimpse of hope that
there was a family afterwards.

00:47:07.720 --> 00:47:12.000
I looked for love
in all the same old places.

00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:18.880
Found the bottom
of the bottle always dry.

00:47:20.240 --> 00:47:23.160
But when you poured out your heart,

00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:25.360
I didn't waste it.

00:47:26.760 --> 00:47:29.640
'Cause there's nothing like your love

00:47:29.800 --> 00:47:32.680
to get me high.

00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:39.960
You're as smooth as Tennessee whiskey.

00:47:41.040 --> 00:47:46.760
You're as sweet as strawberry wine.

00:47:48.360 --> 00:47:55.000
You're as warm as a glass of brandy.

00:47:55.840 --> 00:48:01.720
And I stay stoned
on your love all the time.

00:48:21.680 --> 00:48:23.640
Hey Harry Dean, it's Debbie Harry.

00:48:25.600 --> 00:48:27.360
Hi, good looking!

00:48:33.680 --> 00:48:35.000
Oh, thank you!

00:48:35.640 --> 00:48:37.640
I was gonna leave you
a message and say:

00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:41.720
Don't worry, I haven't mentioned
that night at my manager's house.

00:48:45.720 --> 00:48:47.920
Deborah Harry...
I didn't realize,

00:48:48.040 --> 00:48:50.160
she wrote a song about me.

00:48:53.360 --> 00:48:56.120
What is it, I want that man?

00:48:57.360 --> 00:49:00.720
I wanna dance with Harry Dean.

00:49:01.200 --> 00:49:04.480
Drive through Texas
in a black limousine.

00:49:06.320 --> 00:49:08.160
I don't know the rest...
I can't remember.

00:49:09.080 --> 00:49:12.520
I wanna piece of heaven
before I die...

00:49:13.040 --> 00:49:14.440
I think that's the next line.

00:49:15.520 --> 00:49:19.040
It was about me in Paris, Texas
and I didn't realize at the time

00:49:19.160 --> 00:49:22.240
what a great accolade
she was giving me.

00:49:23.760 --> 00:49:26.720
He found out about the song or
somebody told him about it.

00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:29.880
So we had of course then to meet.

00:49:32.600 --> 00:49:33.640
She called me

00:49:34.880 --> 00:49:37.280
after the song had been out for years.

00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:39.880
And we got together.

00:49:41.320 --> 00:49:44.880
and... bonded.

00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:49.280
He seems to me...

00:49:53.440 --> 00:49:57.720
properly involved
with the world of Hollywood.

00:49:59.160 --> 00:50:02.480
He is always going to be an actor.

00:50:07.120 --> 00:50:11.040
He has this good sense of proportion
about his values, I think.

00:50:11.960 --> 00:50:15.160
He has managed
to have long term relationships

00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:19.280
which is very often
not the case out there

00:50:19.400 --> 00:50:24.440
because it's a competitive,
focused environment.

00:50:24.760 --> 00:50:28.040
People run through
each others lives quickly

00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:31.320
And he has maintained relationships

00:50:31.680 --> 00:50:33.880
for many, many years
with a lot of people.

00:50:34.120 --> 00:50:36.560
And I think that really
speaks well for him.

00:50:48.160 --> 00:50:49.640
You lived with Jack Nicholson?

00:50:49.760 --> 00:50:52.560
Yeah. About 2 1/2 years,
up in Laurel Canyon.

00:50:55.800 --> 00:50:57.160
That was a trip.

00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:00.880
That's when he did Easy Rider.

00:51:01.400 --> 00:51:03.000
That's got him started.

00:51:05.520 --> 00:51:08.560
It was never boring.

00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:12.920
We had arguments occasionally.

00:51:15.880 --> 00:51:19.400
But you're still close, right?
- Yeah, we've been close forever.

00:51:20.600 --> 00:51:21.960
He's a loyal friend.

00:51:25.320 --> 00:51:28.800
We did two or three films together.

00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:32.160
Missouri Breaks
with Marlon Brando and Jack.

00:51:34.120 --> 00:51:36.320
Is that how you met Marlon Brando?

00:51:37.720 --> 00:51:40.000
I might have met him briefly before.

00:51:40.120 --> 00:51:41.800
He lived next to Jack.

00:51:42.440 --> 00:51:46.240
That's when we first really met.

00:51:50.280 --> 00:51:52.480
We didn't see each other for years

00:51:53.040 --> 00:51:56.040
until the last 3 years
of his life. We bonded.

00:51:56.400 --> 00:52:01.240
We talked all the time for hours.
On the phone.

00:52:03.840 --> 00:52:06.880
He was great I love Marlon, miss him.

00:52:13.560 --> 00:52:15.920
Everything. He was into everything.

00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:18.520
Eastern religions. Poetry.

00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:22.680
And he had a dark side. He was the...

00:52:23.680 --> 00:52:28.680
macrocosm of man...
of human being. He had everything.

00:52:30.040 --> 00:52:34.560
He was the greatest. Of all of them.

00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:39.200
Him and Montgomery Clift.

00:52:39.920 --> 00:52:43.960
Montgomery Clift influenced Marlon.

00:52:44.080 --> 00:52:47.640
He said was a big influence
on him. Montgomery Clift.

00:52:48.120 --> 00:52:51.880
He was one of the most
truthful actors of all.

00:52:56.240 --> 00:52:58.760
What advice would you give
to a young actor?

00:52:59.160 --> 00:53:00.720
Play yourself.

00:53:02.200 --> 00:53:04.880
You have to work
on every part you play.

00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:09.480
Research.
And you try to personalize everything.

00:53:11.280 --> 00:53:13.000
And that's playing yourself.

00:53:14.040 --> 00:53:17.120
Sometimes the words...
it's an acting term

00:53:17.240 --> 00:53:20.840
called the available stimulus.
The dialogue itself...

00:53:22.160 --> 00:53:24.720
If it's good writing
it has an influence on you.

00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:31.920
What was that David Lynch film
Dennis Hopper did?

00:53:33.680 --> 00:53:34.440
Blue Velvet?

00:53:34.720 --> 00:53:37.760
Blue Velvet.
He wanted to meet me on that,

00:53:37.920 --> 00:53:42.120
but I didn't want
to deal with those emotions.

00:53:43.200 --> 00:53:45.600
So you would have played
the Dennis Hopper part?

00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:46.480
Yeah.

00:53:50.200 --> 00:53:51.520
I was trained on stage.

00:53:51.920 --> 00:53:54.600
I did Shakespeare,
Greek drama, everything.

00:53:57.080 --> 00:53:58.840
But I wanted to be in the movies...

00:53:58.960 --> 00:54:00.880
I didn't care about stage,
I still don't.

00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:02.600
It's too much work,

00:54:02.920 --> 00:54:05.320
it takes too long and
they don't pay enough.

00:54:06.600 --> 00:54:09.640
I remember
figuring that one out early on.

00:54:10.520 --> 00:54:12.680
And you have
a bigger audience in the movies.

00:54:13.520 --> 00:54:16.000
And you get
more money and you can travel.

00:54:21.560 --> 00:54:23.840
And it help to meet women?

00:54:24.200 --> 00:54:28.120
Of course.
That's one reason I did it, I think.

00:54:29.640 --> 00:54:34.080
Like every male.
Every man wants to get laid.

00:54:38.720 --> 00:54:40.280
That's all you think about.

00:54:52.520 --> 00:54:53.920
I kind of do everything for him.

00:54:54.120 --> 00:54:56.800
Everything from making coffee,
buy his groceries,

00:54:57.680 --> 00:54:59.960
I learn his lines,
I learn the lines

00:55:00.440 --> 00:55:02.200
of all the people
in the scene with him.

00:55:02.360 --> 00:55:05.160
So we run his lines together,
learn the scene.

00:55:05.360 --> 00:55:08.280
It's like a
master class a lot of the time.

00:55:08.440 --> 00:55:12.120
When I travel with him,
I coordinate his travel,

00:55:12.480 --> 00:55:13.680
I run his security.

00:55:14.040 --> 00:55:16.960
He gets a script and
he works it 24 hours a day.

00:55:17.120 --> 00:55:20.400
It's on his lap, he talks about it.
He'll call me and we'd do the lines.

00:55:20.960 --> 00:55:24.160
He'll get on set,
he'll do other people's lines.

00:55:24.320 --> 00:55:28.280
I'm talking
to the famous Harry Dean Stanton?

00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:32.040
And what would you like to say?

00:55:32.920 --> 00:55:37.120
I'd like to say
that I think you're phenomenal,

00:55:38.080 --> 00:55:39.920
that you are a legend,

00:55:40.960 --> 00:55:42.560
you're a hell of an actor,

00:55:44.040 --> 00:55:48.920
and I think that you are
a philosopher of life.

00:55:49.360 --> 00:55:50.400
Yeah?

00:55:50.440 --> 00:55:51.800
I put it like this:

00:55:53.840 --> 00:55:55.880
Friendship is essential to the soul.

00:55:56.240 --> 00:55:56.920
What?

00:55:57.080 --> 00:55:59.760
Friendship is essential to the soul.

00:56:00.120 --> 00:56:01.920
Friendship is a what?

00:56:02.240 --> 00:56:05.240
Friendship is essential to the soul.

00:56:05.360 --> 00:56:06.080
Friendship!

00:56:06.480 --> 00:56:08.320
Is the what?

00:56:08.480 --> 00:56:10.000
Is essential to the soul.

00:56:10.080 --> 00:56:10.960
Essential...

00:56:11.040 --> 00:56:12.440
To the soul.

00:56:12.600 --> 00:56:15.120
Guess what.
You've always been a friend of mine.

00:56:15.480 --> 00:56:18.400
He says do nothing,
all the time, right?

00:56:18.880 --> 00:56:22.320
Which is bullshit.
Because if he did nothing,

00:56:22.520 --> 00:56:25.600
he'd still be on a fucking
rocking chair in Kentucky.

00:56:27.240 --> 00:56:30.160
That's what doing nothing gets you,
is exactly that. Nothing.

00:56:30.400 --> 00:56:31.360
He wanted to get out.

00:56:32.400 --> 00:56:34.320
He never saw himself staying there.

00:56:34.680 --> 00:56:37.160
Not ever.
And he had two brothers that stayed.

00:56:38.800 --> 00:56:41.160
Who lived by the bible
and had families

00:56:41.280 --> 00:56:43.520
and kids and the whole thing,
grand kids.

00:56:44.040 --> 00:56:48.320
That was never his gig, not ever
did he imagine himself that way.

00:56:48.760 --> 00:56:52.640
I was just a good old boy
when you were born. In Kentucky.

00:56:53.520 --> 00:56:55.720
You weren't even around
when I was born.

00:56:55.840 --> 00:56:58.520
No but my grandpoppy was around,
so who were they?

00:56:59.880 --> 00:57:01.240
What were they?

00:57:02.280 --> 00:57:03.320
Yeah. What were they?

00:57:03.600 --> 00:57:04.440
People!

00:57:05.040 --> 00:57:06.520
Okay. Alright then.

00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:10.160
But actually I can tell in your heart

00:57:10.280 --> 00:57:12.360
you didn't feel that.
You didn't give a damn.

00:57:12.440 --> 00:57:14.800
It was puzzling to me.
The whole thing.

00:57:15.720 --> 00:57:19.320
Why... What's wrong
with black people?

00:57:19.520 --> 00:57:24.360
... What the fuck, you know...
What's going on?

00:57:24.920 --> 00:57:27.720
Cause Harry don't ask questions...
mother fucker.

00:57:27.880 --> 00:57:31.040
God damn, man. I love you.

00:57:31.320 --> 00:57:34.320
I love you, too.
You're my man. You're cool.

00:57:34.920 --> 00:57:37.880
When an older person,
who's wildly successful,

00:57:38.360 --> 00:57:42.240
it's very easy
to look back and say I didn't try.

00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:44.400
The truth is he tried his whole life.

00:57:45.520 --> 00:57:46.760
He's still trying.

00:57:54.360 --> 00:57:57.040
He's kind of
the Forrest Gump of Hollywood.

00:57:57.800 --> 00:58:00.880
Not by any means
the lack of intelligence,

00:58:01.040 --> 00:58:04.880
but in the way he stumbles
through extraordinary circumstances.

00:58:23.160 --> 00:58:24.840
We gotta get a group together, buddy.

00:58:25.800 --> 00:58:28.920
Who are you thinking about...
Billy, Donny...

00:58:29.120 --> 00:58:32.360
Yeah. You and me...
maybe Swan and Fritz.

00:58:32.800 --> 00:58:35.200
This time we save our money man.

00:58:35.600 --> 00:58:39.000
We take our time, get it tight
and slip it in as slick as shit, man.

00:58:41.000 --> 00:58:42.760
Sweet Jesus
look at that little ass, man.

00:58:42.960 --> 00:58:46.880
God, it's beautiful.
They're all over the place!

00:58:47.920 --> 00:58:50.200
We gotta get us
some ladies tonight. You know any?

00:58:51.600 --> 00:58:54.280
That god damn Virginia, man!

00:58:55.480 --> 00:58:57.960
A man's gotta have his
outside womens. You know that?

00:58:58.280 --> 00:58:59.040
Yeah.

00:59:01.680 --> 00:59:06.080
Lord would you look at you,
now that you're here ain't you,

00:59:06.240 --> 00:59:09.480
proud of your peers
and the long way you've come...

00:59:09.640 --> 00:59:12.320
Harry Dean got me
into the first movie I did.

00:59:12.640 --> 00:59:16.680
We were at the Troubadour,
he brought me a script

00:59:16.800 --> 00:59:20.920
and did a screen test with me,
helped me through.

00:59:22.360 --> 00:59:25.920
He was in the film with me.
It was called Cisco Pike.

00:59:27.240 --> 00:59:30.520
God, he was so much
a part of my life...

00:59:33.120 --> 00:59:35.440
When I was still working
at the Troubadour,

00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:38.160
he'd get up and sing
with me every now and then.

00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:41.800
Usually he loved
to sing Mexican songs.

00:59:44.400 --> 00:59:45.960
Well, speak of the devil...

00:59:47.080 --> 00:59:48.360
The big star has arrived

00:59:51.320 --> 00:59:52.680
I'm barely mobile.

00:59:56.200 --> 01:00:00.040
It's a reunion
of your band from Cisco Pike.

01:00:01.360 --> 01:00:02.960
That's the first one we did, right?

01:00:03.120 --> 01:00:08.720
That's the one you got me into
and did a screen test with me.

01:00:09.120 --> 01:00:11.440
Oh yeah. And broke a bottle.
Remember that?

01:00:11.600 --> 01:00:12.240
Yes!

01:00:13.080 --> 01:00:15.240
I never did anything
like that in my life.

01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:17.720
The director sticks
his head out and says:

01:00:17.960 --> 01:00:20.040
"When you come in,
I want you to scare Kris."

01:00:20.440 --> 01:00:24.920
He's a helicopter pilot,
boxer, all American hero.

01:00:25.760 --> 01:00:27.000
And I'm gonna scare him.

01:00:29.080 --> 01:00:30.880
I was desperate and
I saw a beer bottle,

01:00:31.040 --> 01:00:32.840
sitting in the corner.
Empty beer bottle.

01:00:34.240 --> 01:00:36.600
I knocked on the door
and started to open.

01:00:36.680 --> 01:00:38.640
I broke the bottle on the knob,

01:00:38.960 --> 01:00:41.520
grabbed him by the shirt
and stuck it under his chin.

01:00:44.240 --> 01:00:45.280
And it worked.

01:00:46.160 --> 01:00:47.640
We're both still working.

01:00:49.520 --> 01:00:51.000
Come to Mexico Billy.

01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:53.600
People know you're here.

01:00:54.960 --> 01:00:56.280
I'll say this is a friend.

01:00:56.520 --> 01:00:59.920
Hell no Max, he ain't gonna be
nothing but another drunken Gringo

01:01:00.040 --> 01:01:02.800
shitting out chili peppers
and waitin' for nothing.

01:01:08.480 --> 01:01:09.920
It's got a good edge.

01:01:10.760 --> 01:01:12.000
Gracias, amigo.

01:01:13.240 --> 01:01:15.560
Remember when me and Dylan
ran through his shot?

01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:19.320
I forgotten about that,
that was perfect.

01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:23.240
We're shooting a scene at sunset.

01:01:23.360 --> 01:01:26.240
It was supposed to be
sunset for sunrise,

01:01:27.320 --> 01:01:29.000
maybe you can have two takes,

01:01:29.240 --> 01:01:31.680
but probably you only have one take,

01:01:32.040 --> 01:01:33.760
when the sun is just perfect

01:01:34.080 --> 01:01:36.920
and we're just half way
through the scene,

01:01:37.840 --> 01:01:41.320
when into the background
comes Harry Dean

01:01:41.440 --> 01:01:43.360
and Bob Dylan jogging.

01:01:47.440 --> 01:01:50.720
It was incredible
because it ruined the shot.

01:01:51.160 --> 01:01:54.000
And you came back in and said...

01:01:54.160 --> 01:01:55.720
Peckinpah:
"What the fuck were you doin?"

01:01:56.240 --> 01:01:59.160
He said: "You ruined
the shot for the whole day!"

01:01:59.400 --> 01:02:01.040
That we have to do it tomorrow.

01:02:01.680 --> 01:02:06.200
And he says:
"Sam, I was running after him,

01:02:06.360 --> 01:02:10.720
trying to tell him
to get out of there."

01:02:11.440 --> 01:02:15.040
It was a total lie
and everybody knew it.

01:02:18.080 --> 01:02:20.000
Did you party a lot together?

01:02:20.480 --> 01:02:22.400
Probably.

01:02:22.600 --> 01:02:24.360
We hung out with the same people.

01:02:26.040 --> 01:02:28.960
You were at Jack Nicholson's
every time I was there.

01:02:30.480 --> 01:02:31.760
I thought you lived there.

01:02:34.840 --> 01:02:36.520
Are you doing any films right now?

01:02:36.720 --> 01:02:38.800
Yeah. I'm doing a film with Sean Penn.

01:02:39.600 --> 01:02:40.840
I'm playing a guy

01:02:41.640 --> 01:02:43.320
that invented the wheels for luggage.

01:02:43.520 --> 01:02:44.640
Robert Plath.

01:02:47.280 --> 01:02:49.680
He's still alive.
I talked to him on the phone.

01:02:51.400 --> 01:02:53.960
I remember you were
so mad at the director

01:02:55.000 --> 01:02:58.760
in Cisco Pike.
We had our big scene in the car

01:02:59.520 --> 01:03:00.600
that you got drunk.

01:03:02.440 --> 01:03:05.080
I had to keep slapping you
in between takes

01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:07.440
to wake you up.

01:03:09.880 --> 01:03:12.760
You were supposed
to be wasted in the scene anyway.

01:03:12.880 --> 01:03:14.840
That's why I got drunk, I think...

01:03:14.920 --> 01:03:15.840
I think it was...

01:03:16.440 --> 01:03:18.240
And stoned, too probably.

01:03:19.840 --> 01:03:23.080
Probably...
and a problem when he's stoned.

01:03:25.040 --> 01:03:26.320
You wanna do that one?

01:03:28.560 --> 01:03:31.840
See him wasted on the sidewalk

01:03:32.120 --> 01:03:34.840
in his jacket and his jeans

01:03:35.080 --> 01:03:39.720
wearing yesterday's
misfortunes like a smile.

01:03:41.440 --> 01:03:42.800
Once he had a future

01:03:43.480 --> 01:03:46.560
full of money, love, and dreams,

01:03:46.720 --> 01:03:51.040
which he spent
like they were going out of style.

01:03:52.840 --> 01:03:55.240
And he keeps right on a changin'

01:03:55.440 --> 01:03:58.280
for the better or the worse,

01:03:58.880 --> 01:04:02.800
Searching for a shrine
he's never found.

01:04:04.240 --> 01:04:09.840
Never knowing if believing
is a blessing or a curse

01:04:10.320 --> 01:04:14.240
or if the going up
was worth the coming down.

01:04:15.720 --> 01:04:16.920
He's a poet.

01:04:17.680 --> 01:04:18.480
He's a picker.

01:04:19.080 --> 01:04:21.680
He's a prophet, he's a pusher.

01:04:22.320 --> 01:04:24.480
He's a pilgrim and a preacher.

01:04:24.880 --> 01:04:27.960
And a problem when he's stoned.

01:04:28.080 --> 01:04:30.400
He's a walking contradiction

01:04:30.920 --> 01:04:33.440
partly truth and partly fiction,

01:04:33.800 --> 01:04:36.240
taking every wrong direction,

01:04:36.400 --> 01:04:39.240
on his lonely way back home.

01:04:40.840 --> 01:04:43.120
And there's a lot of wrong directions

01:04:43.720 --> 01:04:47.440
on that lonesome way back home.

01:04:48.400 --> 01:04:50.520
That wasn't just about Harry Dean...

01:04:51.000 --> 01:04:53.120
That was about me and Dennis...

01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:57.720
Johnny Cash thought
I wrote it about him.

01:04:59.400 --> 01:05:01.640
He was part of it... and Waylon.

01:05:03.120 --> 01:05:06.640
I think your heart
is really into music.

01:05:06.760 --> 01:05:08.680
More than anything else.

01:05:09.520 --> 01:05:12.720
Oh yeah. I still love it and it's...

01:05:13.560 --> 01:05:16.320
frustrating because
I never pursued it.

01:05:17.920 --> 01:05:21.400
I've avoided success artfully.

01:05:26.440 --> 01:05:30.400
And that's a conflict.
But it's what is.

01:05:33.040 --> 01:05:36.800
There's something that's been wearing
me. I just gotta get it off my mind.

01:05:38.920 --> 01:05:42.280
It's my age man, I mean I chose.

01:05:42.440 --> 01:05:45.360
Oh man if you're still worried about
that business in the car forget it.

01:05:45.560 --> 01:05:47.040
No no man that's not
what I'm worried about.

01:05:47.200 --> 01:05:51.080
I'm worried about when we get on that
stage again, under those lights man,

01:05:51.200 --> 01:05:54.600
you know the wrinkles
maybe it don't look too good.

01:05:55.440 --> 01:05:57.200
Oh geez man.

01:05:57.320 --> 01:06:00.080
What? Hey man it's true.

01:06:00.320 --> 01:06:01.400
Fuck me.

01:06:02.880 --> 01:06:07.120
It ain't your god damned body
thereafter man, it's your soul.

01:06:12.200 --> 01:06:13.760
It's all gonna go away.

01:06:14.600 --> 01:06:16.760
You're gonna go, I'm gonna go,
everybody's gonna go.

01:06:16.920 --> 01:06:18.280
The sun is burning out,

01:06:19.280 --> 01:06:20.520
the earth is gonna go.

01:06:21.120 --> 01:06:23.560
It's all transient.
Everything is transient.

01:06:23.720 --> 01:06:26.040
So it's ultimately not important.

01:06:27.160 --> 01:06:29.600
It's all fleeting, passing.

01:06:35.320 --> 01:06:38.800
And that's not a negative concept.

01:06:39.240 --> 01:06:40.920
It's just what is.

01:06:43.000 --> 01:06:44.200
It's liberating.

01:06:53.120 --> 01:06:54.720
Just everything happens.

01:06:55.040 --> 01:06:59.800
It's all one connected whole.
No answer to it.

01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:03.440
That's buddhistic,
but I am not a Buddhist.

01:07:03.920 --> 01:07:05.720
What are you?
- Nothing.

01:07:08.320 --> 01:07:10.360
It's a relief. Isn't that a relief?

01:07:10.680 --> 01:07:13.080
When you're nothing,
there is no problems.

01:07:23.040 --> 01:07:29.320
At a time when the world
seems to be spinning,

01:07:29.920 --> 01:07:33.600
hopelessly out of control.

01:07:35.400 --> 01:07:41.720
There's believers, and deceivers,
and old in-betweeners,

01:07:42.000 --> 01:07:45.880
that seem to have no place to go.

01:07:48.160 --> 01:07:54.840
It's the same old song,
it's right and it's wrong,

01:07:55.080 --> 01:07:59.280
and living is just something
that I do.

01:08:01.400 --> 01:08:07.840
And with no place to hide,
I looked in your eyes,

01:08:08.280 --> 01:08:12.640
and I found myself in you.

01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:21.280
I looked to the stars,
and tried all of the bars,

01:08:21.760 --> 01:08:25.680
and I've nearly gone up in smoke.

01:08:28.000 --> 01:08:31.400
But now my hand's on the wheel,

01:08:31.880 --> 01:08:34.600
there's something that's real

01:08:35.440 --> 01:08:39.720
and I feel like I am going home.

01:08:42.120 --> 01:08:44.880
It's the same damn tune,

01:08:45.280 --> 01:08:48.120
it's the man in the moon,

01:08:48.600 --> 01:08:53.160
it's the way that I feel about you.

01:08:55.200 --> 01:08:58.320
And with no place to hide,

01:08:58.880 --> 01:09:01.600
I looked in your eyes,

01:09:02.360 --> 01:09:06.640
and I found myself in you.

01:09:07.880 --> 01:09:11.080
I looked to the stars,

01:09:11.360 --> 01:09:14.200
tried all of the bars,

01:09:14.840 --> 01:09:18.920
and I've nearly gone up in smoke.

01:09:21.120 --> 01:09:24.440
But now my hand's on the wheel,

01:09:24.960 --> 01:09:27.920
I have something that's real,

01:09:28.400 --> 01:09:32.800
and I feel like I am going home...

01:09:38.840 --> 01:09:40.080
It's good, huh?

01:09:40.480 --> 01:09:41.360
Good words.

01:09:42.080 --> 01:09:43.520
And there's a couple of mistakes,

01:09:43.520 --> 01:09:46.040
but leave them in there.
Who gives a fuck.

01:09:50.120 --> 01:09:53.320
When we started doing gigs together,
one of the first thing

01:09:53.480 --> 01:09:55.720
you said to me was:
"There are no mistakes".

01:09:58.280 --> 01:09:59.320
So now what?

01:10:00.520 --> 01:10:02.040
That's it, I think...

01:10:02.880 --> 01:10:05.080
We did Tennessee Whiskey, didn't we?

01:10:14.680 --> 01:10:16.240
I didn't do an Irish song.

01:10:19.280 --> 01:10:22.400
I'll do "Danny Boy", what the hell,
now I am warmed up

01:10:30.200 --> 01:10:31.840
I should preface this song.

01:10:31.960 --> 01:10:34.520
This was written by a father,
singing to his son.

01:10:34.640 --> 01:10:36.920
He had lost two sons
in two other wars.

01:10:37.400 --> 01:10:39.840
He's singing to his youngest son
who's going to the war.

01:10:44.440 --> 01:10:46.000
It's his youngest son

01:10:46.200 --> 01:10:48.280
and it's an Irish national anthem.

01:10:51.360 --> 01:10:52.320
Give me the chord.

01:10:53.960 --> 01:10:57.800
Oh Danny boy, the pipes,
the pipes are calling.

01:10:58.320 --> 01:11:02.280
From glen to glen,
and down the mountain side.

01:11:02.680 --> 01:11:06.920
The summer's gone,
and all the leaves are falling.

01:11:07.400 --> 01:11:13.360
It's you, it's you must go
and I must bide.

01:11:14.120 --> 01:11:17.120
But come ye back
when summer's in the meadow.

01:11:17.360 --> 01:11:22.440
Or when the valley's hushed
and white with snow.

01:11:23.800 --> 01:11:32.200
'Tis I'll be here
in sunshine or in shadow.

01:11:32.560 --> 01:11:38.280
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy,
I love you so.

01:11:39.400 --> 01:11:42.480
And if you come
and all the leaves are dying.

01:11:43.240 --> 01:11:47.240
And I am dead, as dead I well may be.

01:11:47.760 --> 01:11:51.720
You'll come and find the place
where I am lying.

01:11:52.360 --> 01:11:56.880
And kneel and say
an "Ave" there for me.

01:11:58.040 --> 01:12:02.720
And I willl hear,
tho' soft you tread above me.

01:12:03.040 --> 01:12:09.680
And all my dreams
will warm and sweeter be.

01:12:10.760 --> 01:12:18.640
If you'll just bend,
and tell me that you love me.

01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:29.640
Then I will sleep in peace
until you come to me.

01:12:35.040 --> 01:12:35.920
That's it.