Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Television and Cinema Verities #107




"When I first met him, Neill said, 'I grew up in South Africa. I grew up in a nice neighborhood in Johannesburg, but we'd drive a few miles and see poverty as abject as any place on earth. Then, when I was eighteen, we moved to Canada and the experience of moving to the First World so shocked me that all my life, everything I do, all my work, is a rumination on that incredible difference.' "

 - Matt Damon discusses the underlying meaning of Elysium (2013), in a July 2013 interview at Esquire.
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