I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.
They say a story loses something with each telling.
People have forgotten how to tell a story.
After we air the call, it's gone. I always thought, 'What a waste.' That's such a powerful story, and there's no way to revisit it or share it.
Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it.
We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear.
The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.
