Ezra Edelman

Oh, why did this happen?

Was this something consistent within this man's behavior?

Can I contextualize what that meant to him in his head?

Where did this come from?

Or I can just be like, oh, they're not going to like that.

That might change people's image of Prince, so I better not put that in.

Those are my choices.

And then I am committing documentary malpractice.

I read something, there was some article that had, I think it was the Times London, and said like, some fans are happy with the decision because they believe that this film would have been an invasion of his privacy.

And I'm like, okay, and?

Of course it's an invasion of his privacy.

I don't know what to do with that argument.

That's not an argument.

But isn't that the fundamental disconnect when it comes to- He's a public figure.

But what that means, right?

What it means- He's a public figure.

I don't understand.

He's an historical and historically important subject.

He's one of the great artists of the last hundred years.

We need to understand who these people are, how they made their art, what drove them, how they lived, how they died.