[Being confronted about the discrepancies in his recollection of his life with Lestat] The version we speak of now is the more nuanced portrait.
Hmm. Or the more rehearsed.
Perhaps I was mistaken about the 'Wolverine Blues.'
Fuck the 'Wolverine Blues.' Ken Burns can choke on the footnotes. It's the abused-abuser psychological relationship I'm talking about.
I do not consider myself abused.
I mean, usually when you're a little too close to it, the abused still loves the abuser, but you flipped it completely on its head.
I'm not a victim.
Fifty years later, you talk like he was your soulmate. Like you were locked in some fucked up gothic romance. Why?
[Reading aloud from Daniel's memoir] 'I am in my Buick, staring in the rearview mirror at my daughter in the car seat, an hour after I gave Derek, a guy I don't know, the last 30 bucks I had. My editor reminds me it's seven years before car seats are mandatory. My ex-wife reminds me I never owned a Buick. This is the odyssey of recollection.' [Closes book]
The tapes are an admitted performance. This is the premise of our interview. Half a century later, allow me my odyssey. [Daniel throws away the tapes of their first interview] Now who's performing?
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