Zeros and Ones

About the new film I'm working on

called Zeros and Ones, by Abel Ferrara.

I've been a fan of Abel since I first fell in love with the movies.

He's a completely unique and extraordinary filmmaker.

He's got voice with the camera. He has depth with his actors.

The work that he's done most recently with Willem Dafoe has been wildly inspiring to me,

so I was very grateful to get the script.

Especially considering that the script speaks to this moment.

Not in any obvious, uh, didactic way,

but you can feel that this is Abel's hit

on what we've all been going through for the last year or so.

Uh, it's a beautiful script. I play a military man.

You're not exactly sure whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy,

and I also play my own brother, who's a revolutionary.

And so, that's very dynamic for me to get to play

these two characters that are representing contrasting viewpoints.

I think we're gonna be able to do something really special.

Uh, I consider the most important aspect of my job,

who I choose to work with, that's what actors do.

You know, we champion filmmakers, uh, we champion voices.

And I'm excited for the world to see Abel's response

to-to this wild year we've been living through.

I hope you enjoy it.

Yo, you good?

Still here.

All right, here, let me pull it up.

Hey, let me... let me work with this some more.

What's it say?

You're still alive.

You trust it?

Come on.

That's the news to the world.

It is to religion that we call you.

The religion of sincerity.

The best manners, righteousness,

mercy, honor, purity, piety.

It is the religion of showing kindness to others.

Establishing justice between them,

granting them the rights,

and defending the oppressed and the persecuted.

We call you to be a people of principles, honor, and purity.

That you may be freed from the deceptive lies, that you are a great nation.

Do you now know why we fight and why we shall be victorious?

Hey, shoot it so they believe it.

Symbol of Christianity...

death to the infidels...

The 3,000-year war...

Jesus was just another soldier,

another war casualty...

but on whose side?

Hey.

Come up the back.

- -

His father?

Your brother...

is still in prison.

Well, at least he's alive.

For now.

Are you sure?

You tell me.

Is that your rabbit?

Does he have a name?

What are you dreamin' about?

Fish?

Porcupines?

Goodnight.

I only have tea.

That's fine.

Have you figured out what you're doing in my country?

I'm workin' on it.

Lots of honey?

- Mm-hm. - Right.

What's with you Americans and honey?

You don't care if he ever gets out.

He won't last ten minutes on the street,

knowin' what he knows.

How do they know what he knows?

You told them?

I heard you're back.

Show him.

And they're both negative.

He's addicted to the screens.

In another time and place, it could be castor oil,

and I'd call you partigiano.

Made in Swiss...

made popular in San Francisco,

and perfected recently by a chef not far from here.

It's quicker and more effective.

Ah, shit.

No... you don't...

Shh... Shh...

Where?

Where... and when?

Okay?

It takes more than guns to kill a man.

You think I'm your enemy?

Yeah, is that what you think?

Your fear made me, and now, here I am.

I am your enemy, but your enemy won't be gone when you kill me.

You can't kill me.

Try it, watch what happens.

I'll be right back after the sound and the fury is finished.

Where, and when?

Come on.

This machine kills fascists.

This machine is my voice. It's the human voice.

My heart is the drummer... Okay, all right.

You wanna know... you wanna know where the door is, eh?

Where, and when?

No, wait, wait.

I'll tell you...

I'll tell you... I'll tell you...

I'll tell you where the... where the door...

I'll meet you... I'll meet you there.

And I'm not afraid to die.

And you?

You're dead already.

I would light myself on fire!

How come no one is lighting themselves on fire, eh?!

How come no one is lighting themselves on fire anymore?!

This country was conceived in liberty,

dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

This is a battleground.

The world is watching what happens here,

and it is up to us, the living...

to finish the work of the dead

so they will not have died in vain

and that a government of the people, for the people,

by the people, shall not perish from this earth!

Hail Caesar! Hail Augustus Caesar 'cause he-he got it, he got it.

And you-you, are you American? You're American, right?

I can't see him, behind his mask!

Are you American?

You know the song!

Are you American?

It's the law of nature, nature's God.

We hold these truths to be self-evident

that all men are created equal and that they are endowed

with certain unalienable rights:

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Do you know who said that?

Who knows who said it, raise their hand.

It wasn't one man, yet you wanna kill one man.

All right, all right, all right.

You wanna know where the door is.

Didn't you find it?

When you were rifling through my bag?

Writing my suicide note?

Where did you come up with that idea, huh?

You learn that from your scoutmaster now?

Are you guys Boy Scouts? Do you swear to be faithful and true, huh?

Huh? Don't you even know that your strippers are Marxist?

Your shoemakers are my soldiers?

That your cameraman is my brother, huh?

Nobody living's ever going to stop me from walking the freedom highway.

Nobody living's gonna make me turn back

'cause this land was made for you and me.

You don't know how to work with wood.

You don't love it, huh?

- You hate trees, that's why you hate me... - Okay.

No, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, no!

Ah, fuck! Oh!

Oh, please, Lord, grant me the courage

to love those who hate me so that we may change the world.

- Oh, please, Lord, grant me the courage... -

to love those who hate me so that we may change the world.

Grant me the courage to love those who hate me so that we may change the world.

So when is this gonna happen?

It has been happening for a thousand years.

Is he here now?

He was born here.

Do you remember how you felt when you first put on that uniform?