Leonora Carrington: What do you want to know?
Emerald Fennell: You know, the tragic details.
Carrington: [Lights a cigarette] There are things that are not sayable.
Fennell: Of course. It’s always a difficult dance.
Carrington: I just don’t deal with publishers anymore.
•••
Fennell: The road to the ending is suddenly all in plain sight.
Carrington: A saying, which is not mine: “Form is emptiness and emptiness is form.”
Fennell: The question I wanted to pose was: How do you get what you want out of something that will never want you back?
Carrington: I don’t know. We didn’t know that the Nazis weren’t going to take over the world.
Fennell: It’d seem bogus.
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Carrington: Ah, yes, the Russians.
Fennell: But sex can be embarrassing. [Laughs]
Carrington: Well, you become closer to death, so that really tends to dominate everything else.
Fennell: There’s a suspension of disbelief that acknowledges: this is a film, we made this for your pleasure.
Carrington: Not that I know of.