"I was just remembering this leap of the imagination that we all took when we were preparing the film of trying to grasp what it would be like to have lived for that length of time, and to access to that back catalog of music, all of the things that they have in their houses. And I think yunno it made us question how hidebound we all are encouraged the be in terms of 'Our Generation' or 'Our Time' or 'Our Decade' or whatever. And once you imaginatively release yourself from that it's yunno, you get a kind of free-fall into imagining what it is to be in my case 3000 years old in Adam's case 500. Where Schubert is that guy I talked to the other day. That whole feeling of span. That is a heady feeling, but once you start to chew on that root, and you get used to it which is where we were at while we were shooting. It gives you this amazing feeling of being able to sample not only decades, but centuries. And I think that generally speaking we don't encourage ourselves to do that. But you know what? We can. And somebody who's really helping us do that is Youtube, of course. We can go back there, thanks to Youtube not only in terms of music of course but also in terms of lectures, and we can really forget that we're only living now."
NYFF51 in conversation with Jim Jarmusch & Tilda Swinton
