Waking Life
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1:05:02
I mean, it's like
we go through life...

1:05:06
with our antennas
bouncing off one other,

1:05:08
continuously
on ant autopilot,

1:05:11
with nothing really human
required of us.

1:05:15
Stop. Go.
Walk here. Drive there.

1:05:19
All action
basically for survival.

1:05:21
All communication simply to keep
this ant colony buzzing along...

1:05:26
in an efficient,
polite manner.

1:05:28
" Here's your change." " Paper
or plastic?" "Credit or debit?"

1:05:32
"You want ketchup
with that?"

1:05:35
I don't want a straw.
I want real human moments.

1:05:40
I want to see you.
I want you to see me.

1:05:43
I don't want to give that up.
I don't want to be an ant, you know?

1:05:49
Yeah. Yeah, I know.
1:05:51
I don't want
to be an ant, either.

1:05:54
Yeah, thanks for kind of,
like, jostling me there.

1:05:57
I've been kind of
on zombie autopilot lately.

1:06:00
I don't feel like an ant in my head,
but I guess I probably look like one.

1:06:04
It's kind of like D.H. Lawrence had this
idea of two people meeting on a road...

1:06:09
And instead of just passing
and glancing away,

1:06:11
they decided to accept what he calls
"the confrontation between their souls."

1:06:15
It's like, um-- like freeing
the brave reckless gods within us all.

1:06:20
Then it's like
we have met.

1:06:24
I'm doing this project. I'm hoping
you'll be interested in doing it.

1:06:27
It's a soap opera,
1:06:29
and, so, the characters
are the fantasy lives.

1:06:32
They're the alter egos of
the performers who are in it.

1:06:35
So you pretty much just figure out
something that you’ve always
wanted to do...

1:06:38
or the life you’ve wanted to lead
or occupation or something like that.

1:06:42
And we write that in, and then we
also have your life intersect...

1:06:46
with other people's in the soap opera
in some typical soap opera fashion.

1:06:51
Then I also want to show it
in a live venue...

1:06:54
and have the actors present
so that once the episode is screened,

1:06:58
then the audience
can direct...


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