Remembering the Charlie Rose Guests Who Died in 2025 – In Their Own Voices

Any longing within you to make peace with something?

Yeah, maybe myself.

Yourself?

Yeah.

[laughs]

You're at war with yourself? Are you trying to understand yourself?

I think everybody is.

Are you on a journey to-

Trying to understand myself, yeah

... to, to, to understand condi- contradictory impulses or?

Exactly, yeah.

To, to figure it out.

Yeah.

It's a mystery.

Is this simply a case of a gifted filmmaker seeing a script he loved, or can you make more of the fact that you're doing this film in terms of the cycles and the evolution of the life, of a creative artist's life?

I, um, have said that I, I, I think first you read a script and, or a book, or you get ideas, and you begin to fall in love, and at the same time, you feel a thing in the air, and the thing in the air is always changing, and something about the thing in the air, um, verifies your love or it kind of goes against it.

And in this case, it went, you know, with it, the thing in the air.

And, um, so it felt correct to go forward.

What's the thing in the air?

I don't know what it is.

It's, uh...

It might be, um, in Germany, they say it's a zeitgeist.

Yeah, right.

They told me that name for it.

Give me that.

Any longing within you to make peace with something?

Yeah, maybe myself.

Yourself?

Yeah.

[laughs]

You're at war with yourself? Are you trying to understand yourself?

I think everybody is.

Are you on a journey to-

Trying to understand myself, yeah

... to, to, to understand condi- contradictory impulses or?

Exactly, yeah.

To, to figure it out.

Yeah.

It's a mystery.

Is this simply a case of a gifted filmmaker seeing a script he loved, or can you make more of the fact that you're doing this film in terms of the cycles and the evolution of the life, of a creative artist's life?

I, um, have said that I, I, I think first you read a script and, or a book, or you get ideas, and you begin to fall in love, and at the same time, you feel a thing in the air, and the thing in the air is always changing, and something about the thing in the air, um, verifies your love or it kind of goes against it.

And in this case, it went, you know, with it, the thing in the air.

And, um, so it felt correct to go forward.

What's the thing in the air?

I don't know what it is.

It's, uh...

It might be, um, in Germany, they say it's a zeitgeist.

Yeah, right.

They told me that name for it.

Give me that.