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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When people ask me what is my main inspiration
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say it is the ancient Greek drama
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you take a play like Medea that's written 2300 years ago
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is about a woman who murders her children because of jalousy in relation to her husband
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if that is not a crime story, I don't know what a crime story is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the only difference is that there is no police officer in it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because in Greece at that time there was no police force
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I can assure you if they had had a police force, there would also have a policeman in the play
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but this story uses the mirror of crime to look upon contradictions in society
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is what interests me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at McBeth, take McBeth and put Richard Nixon in there:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have the same story, in a way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I can say that, yes, there are also pure crime fictions that inspire me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example Sherlock Holmes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because many histories talk about English society,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about hypocrisy, about many things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I don't see any differences by writing crime fiction or another novel
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think, I put up my cheek a little and say that crime fiction is one of the oldest literary genre that exists
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not invented by Edgar Alan Poe, it's much older than that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of my ancestors were musicians, they were playing in churches, organ players and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my grandfather was a composer and I think that when I was young I also thought of myself as a musician
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I realised quite quickly that (I was playing the violin) I would never be as good as I would want to be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I, in a way, chose another instrument because you have to understand that writing is a sort of instrument you have in your hands
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But on the other hand you might say that music is a very essential part of writing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as it is in painting, as it is in sculpturing, as it is in any other kind of art making, I would say
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My home was full of music but it was also full of books
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think I grew up in what you can call a really, really liberal family because
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first of all no one said anything if you were late at night reading
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and secondly no one asked you what you read
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is to me a good definition of what is a liberal family
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that the specific thing with my childhood was the fact that there was no mother around
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she had left the family so I grew up with my father and he was very occupied
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I can still remember at night sometimes I would tell him something about what I had read
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was clever enough to take two minutes to listen to all the stupid things that I said
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and about what I read
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think it is one of the lessons that I learned: you always have to listen to a child
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that the real artist is the child because if you remember back when you were 4, 5 or 6 years old,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, you had an enormous belief in the fact that you could transform a stone into a car,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a piece of wood into whatever
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, then you start school and you know what happens
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rationality takes over … maybe it is necessary
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but later on when you maybe eventually would like to become an artist,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then you have to reconquer the thing you had as a child
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that it has to do with the sort of connection back to the courage you had as a child
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to ask the really, really difficult questions
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I sometimes ask people when I am out talking:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who do you think is my greatest idol? or icon?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people guess this, and that, and I say
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no, I have photo, a small photo on my wall
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the greatest idol is myself as a 12 year old
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when I watch this guy, this boy, this me at 12 years old,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that at time I was at my best. I didn't see any limit to life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believed in imagination, in fantasy, and reality
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought every mountain was possible to climb, every desert was possible to get through
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I look at that boy and I try to imitate him, I try to be as brave and as good as he was.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The sensation of being able to put one word after another word making a sentence, and then making another sentence,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then having a story … this is to me a miracle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is the understanding of reading
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then obviously came the next miracle: that you realise that you could do that yourself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the next miracle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I still remember that the first thing I ever wrote was a verse on Robinson Crusoe on one page
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would give a finger to have that paper left
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I don't have it, it's gone of course … I probably was 6 years old when I wrote it and I, by the way,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,still believe that Robinson Crusoe is the best novel ever written
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a very simple reason: because Robinson is not alone on the island before Friday comes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he is alone on the island with the reader and that's important
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are on that island, with Robinson, … you help him out
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is a genius way of telling a story. I could never think of a plot better than that one
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could take out certain characters in certain books,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take them out of the books and bring them with you as friends.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think one of the most important thing with art is that you get friends there
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could have a painting somewhere; when you see someone in a painting
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could take that person out of the painting and make that person a friend
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that follows you in life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Art to me is essential to see how the world looks, to understand the world by seeing how other people demonstrate it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it could be Francis Bacon or Goya or Ken Holtz (?)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes I can understand it immediately
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes I don't understand it at all
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sometimes I don't want to understand it. I just want that feeling to be sucked into my universe and stay there
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think real art, whether it is a painting or music, or whatever, always gives you a certain surprise
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if there is no surprise, I think it falls down.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I go down to the Prado museum in Madrid once a year, it is a sort of pilgrimage that I do,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I spend two days there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know to walk the rooms full of paintings by Velasquez and then come into Goya, for example,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, it is not the same museum; it is not the same … it is like it is two different worlds
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could say they are both painters but there is something more they are different in,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they tell me different stories about the human condition
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think you cannot come closer than that to defining art: a good artist tells you A story of life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another artist tells you another story, a bad artist doesn't tell you anything.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not afraid of talking about good art and bad art. I think we are living in a time when people are afraid of talking about that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think it is not good because we must be able to say that some art is better than other
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we can discuss that: what do you mean by that?, I don't agree with you … but we can have the discussion.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today I think that critics are very … they lack courage in a way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that if you look through history, in most art, the important kind of art, whether it is sculpture, books or whatever,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is some dimension of a dream, of a better society
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's obvious to me and to most people that we are living in a terrible world today
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the most terrible thing with the world today, it does so many problems, it's completely unnecessary
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let me just give one example: me as a writer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in year 2012, millions upon millions of children go out in life illiterate, they cannot read, they cannot write
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is absolutely unnecessary. We could have eradicated illiteracy a long time ago
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we really would have wanted to do it. But we don't do it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so these people are lost because still reading and writing and the little mathematics are the most important tools you have in life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I find this so disgusting, such a shame, that obviously I have to talk about it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when people ask me can people buy your books, novels, in Mozambique
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say, "why?". There is only one book important here and that is the ABC book
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether it is a computer program or a book, I don't care
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but eradicate illiteracy before you talk about something else
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then we can go on and on, look on the word and most problems that kill people are unnecessary
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I wouldn't understand how could I use my instrument without in one or another way talk about this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could not understand myself
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a writer I am an intellectual and as an intellectual, my responsibility is to react in a way
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to what I see in society
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is the role of the intellectual
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at least if you have the idea of being a radical intellectual
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for me it goes back to the enlightenment time of Diderot and Montaigne
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the role of the intellectual
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I believe this is right and that is why I act the way I act
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do write, I do write many various things but I also talk if necessary
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would say it is my relation to the ideal of the enlightenment
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I agree with that, with the fact that you should talk