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S K: Who’s making work these days that really excites you?
R J: You know what film I think about a lot is The Silence. I want to show that film to everyone. I mean, come on!
S K: It’s gorgeous. They really reached a creative pinnacle with this film. It took them many years to get there. It’s filled with so many incredible moments.
R J: There’s so much happening on so many levels—it’s visually stunning and they tap right into the dreams of those girls.
I can watch that movie with Lara and we all know what it takes. You see that film and respect it for what it represents which is the complexity of that relationship between those subjects and the filmmakers. They were living with them for months and negotiating their involvement with them day by day. That’s a high emotional risk, such difficult terrain to journey through. Being in those kinds