Before Night Falls director Julian Schnabel knows the words fit, but he still doesn't seem to like them. Everybody talks about being an artist all the time. I don't see any artists around. Art is like a pejorative term.
Art is unconsciousness.
Lush and elliptical, it consistently marries image to story with an emotional impact reminiscent of days when the art film was still considered hip. Jean Michel Basquiat . This time, he directs with the confidence and instinct of a man who has found another natural calling. We had a whole island of freedom we had the world that Reinaldo was describing or wishing for when we made this film. That world is one that Mr. Arenas thought he had reached in the idealistic early days of Castro's revolution.