David Marchese

All right.

All right.

You can open your eyes.

All right, let's just do it.

Let's just do it.

We're ready.

We're ready.

So I just want to ask one more question about your adolescence or your formative years.

Sure.

And now I know the director, Terrence Malick, was important for you or is important for you.

Yeah.

And I have a distinct memory of being 16 years old and seeing Terrence Malick's Thin Red Line and then Wes Anderson's Rushmore

maybe within the same week when they came out in the theaters back then.

And it was a totally mind-blowing week of moviegoing for me, both because I didn't really understand that movies could do what those two movies did, and also because I felt like something about both those two films in different ways, they showed me something that I already understood about myself, but hadn't quite really...

been able to articulate for myself or seen depicted in a film.

And as a result, I think it really, both those films I can say kind of changed, in some ways changed who I was at the time and maybe still now.

And I want to know if you have any similar experiences with film where you saw films and then after seeing them understood yourself better.

Yeah.

With Thin Red Line, there was a, you've seen that movie, right?

Yeah, of course.