:53:00
What are you afraid of,
Mr. Boone?
:53:03
Surely not
a frail old man like me.
:53:13
Tell me more about yourself,
Mr. Boone.
:53:16
Have you
a steady companion?
:53:19
- Not at the moment.
- Oh? Why not?
:53:22
Well, 'cause I guess you gotta kiss ass
just to get a piece of it.
:53:28
Nicely put.
:53:30
A man's gotta
make up his life alone.
:53:34
A philosopher.
Mmm.
:53:35
Thoreau...
with a lawn mower.
:53:40
I like it.
Yes.
:53:42
But do be careful,
Mr. Boone.
:53:44
Freedom is a drug, you know,
much like any other.
:53:48
Too much
can be a very bad thing.
:53:50
Is that why you and, uh,
your friend split up?
:53:54
- 'Cause he wanted to be free?
- Yes, I suppose.
:53:57
I know is why
I stopped making pictures.
:54:00
You might not think it
to look at me now,
:54:02
but there was a time when I was
at the very pinnacle of my profession.
:54:05
The horror movies
were behind me.
:54:07
I'd made Showboat.
Major success. Big box office.
:54:11
So now I was to do
something important.
:54:14
The picture was called
The Road Back.
:54:16
It was an indictment of the Great War
and what it did to Germany.
:54:19
It was going to be
my masterpiece.
:54:21
- What happened?
- The fucking studio butchered it.
:54:24
They took the guts
out of my picture.
:54:26
They brought in another director
to add some slapstick...
:54:29
and the movie laid an egg.
:54:31
A great, expensive bomb
for which I was blamed.
:54:35
And after that
I was out of fashion.
:54:38
I could no longer command
the best projects, so I walked away.
:54:42
Why should I spend my time working
in this dreadful business?
:54:47
- Do you miss it?
- Mmm.
:54:50
Oh, it was
all so long ago.
:54:52
Fifteen years.
:54:57
Making movies is
the most wonderful thing in the world.