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A Swat Team Surrounded My House And Came In Every Door. But It Happened Because On The Day That We Split Up, Madonna Developed A Concern That If She Were To Return To The House, She Would Get A Very Severe Haircut.

Jon Krakauer Had Documented It Very Accurately And Very Well But This Kid Made A Real Impression On People, And Likewise They On Him. To Talk To Them Was Very Moving In Many Cases Because They Talk About Him Like They Saw Him Yesterday. In Most Cases They Knew This Kid For A Couple Of Weeks In Their Whole Life And He Just Lasted With Them.

I Can't Imagine Being Quite As Lucky At Any Other Time - I Certainly Never Have Been Before. That Goes Right Down From My Producing Partners To People Like Eddie Vedder. But The Two Things That Make Me Feel That This Was Meant To Be Now And Not Before Was That The Story Itself Has More Resonance Today - I Find It A More Important Story Today Than It Was Then - And Emile.

A Clearer And More Conventional Narrative Would Have Helped The Film Without, In My Opinion, Lessening Its Beauty And Its Impact. Frankly, I'm Still Trying To Figure Out What I'm Doing There And What I Was Supposed To Add In That Context! What's More, Terry Malick Himself Never Managed To Explain It To Me Clearly.

There Is A Kind Of Sense Of Truth And Reconciliation That Is Non-formalized, But It's Understood And Accepted. Haitians Are Haitians And There Is An Inherent Loyalty That Forgives An Awful Lot.