David Marchese

Are there ways you consciously do that?

You know, in the edition that I have of The Chronology of Water, there's an interview with Lydia Yuknovich at the end of the book.

And she just brings up the point, the interviewer, or somehow they get on the subject of drugs.

And she brings up the point that, you know, we might find it culturally uncomfortable to admit, but like the truth is that a lot of artists...

basically come out of drugs and alcohol.

When we spoke earlier, I was doing the thing that you predicted it.

I was leading up to like the encapsulating final question.

Oh, here we go.

No, no.

But then I was like, no, no.

Don't do it.

I'm not going to do the cliche.

But like, what do you think we should end on?

Where do you want to leave people?

Of course, I felt like I was out on the wire with you a little bit in this conversation, but I was glad to be out on that wire with you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

In like a sort of a positive, there was a positive element of risk, I thought, a couple of times.

Good.

I'm glad to hear it.

And good luck with the movie.