A lot of people misinterpret the lyrics to Born In The USA. When Bruce Springsteen says “Send me off to a foreign land to go and kill the yellow man” he’s talking about Springfield and Homer Simpson.
INGMAR BERGMAN (on Orson Welles): “For me, he’s just a hoax. It’s empty. It’s not interesting. It’s dead. Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of — is all the critics’ darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it’s a total bore. Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that the movie’s got is absolutely unbelievable.”
ORSON WELLES (on Ingmar Bergman): I don’t condemn that very northern, very Protestant world of artists like Bergman; it’s just not where I live. The Sweden I like to visit is a lot of fun. But Bergman’s Sweden always reminds me of something Henry James said about Ibsen’s Norway—that it was full of “the odor of spiritual paraffin.” How I sympathize with that! I share neither Bergman’s interests nor his obsessions… He’s far more foreign to me than the Japanese.
@Keegan59992745 It’s way more boring to have a character that falls into every modern “morally gray” but lovable character trope. I almost long to see a protagonist that kills for glory and honor and doesn’t regret or question that twisted worldview.