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March 29, 2005
Cinephilic Wisdom
Cinephile Bill Heidbreder shares his yearning for love and companionship and sheds some wisdom on dating and life in NYT's delightful article. We last encountered Mr Heidbreder in Cinemania, a fantastic little documentary about 5 movie-mad New Yorkers.
A film date, in his view, is awkward by its very nature. "To like going to films, not unlike liking to read, involves a certain cultivation of solitude," he observed. "Even if you're on a date - unless you're with one of these idiots who wants to hold your hand through the whole film - you don't interact with the other person during the film. Which can be very frustrating to some people. They think they've spent two hours with you when all they've done is sit next to you."
Mr. Heidbreder took a sip of water, then continued: "I'm a very uninhibited person in a lot of ways. People who are into art, as I am, are very sublimated, and they're not very repressed. There's an important distinction there. A repressed person doesn't express his or her emotions. A sublimated person is very strongly driven by erotic desires," but it's not the desire to have sex, he said. "That's beneath the surface. But the desire is to create beauty or to experience beauty."
Posted by lainey at March 29, 2005 12:12 PM