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February 23, 2006
Albert Maysles: the people haven't been killed yet
Paul Barman Q's and Albert Maysles A's in the VOICE: "I've been thinking especially lately of where I go from here? What have I yet to film that I should be getting? 
I go back to my childhood and think of the 1930s when it was most common for a father to hit the child with a strap if the child misbehaved. One day I must have done something terribly bad; [my father] did hit me with the strap. It didn't bother me, it didn't hurt me. Later I happened to walk past his bedroom and there he was with his head against the wall crying, and I stood there in amazement, but really understanding how much my father loved me. That's the kind of thing I want to get... My daughter, when she was four years old, we used to go pick up The New York Times the night before at the newsstand. One day we got to the newsstand and the paper hadn't arrived yet. I was getting a little fidgety and she said, "Daddy, the paper's not ready yet because the people haven't been killed yet."
Posted by pride at February 23, 2006 09:44 PM
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