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Jean-Claude Carrière - Training the memory (70/80)

To listen to more of Jean-Claude Carrière’s stories, go the playlist:    • Jean-Claude Carrière - A house with a hist...   French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière (1931-2021) worked with many film-makers, most notably Luis Buñuel. He wrote screenplays for films including 'Belle de Jour', 'The Discreet Charms of the Bourgeoisie', 'Tin Drum' and 'Cyrano de Bergerac'. [Listener: Andrzej Wolski; date recorded: 2010] TRANSCRIPT: To train your memory, you need to have things to tell. I was lucky enough to have had an interesting life, and to have met people who left their mark on me... you remember certain details, attitudes, what they have said. And then I'm lucky as I have a good memory and haven't lost it. But anyway, memory, like imagination, are two things that you can train. Actors know that well. Our brain has amazing possibilities, but it is lazy, reducing. It simply does not want to do the work. When we work with imagination, it is often happy with the first idea... 'Ah, perfect, I can go back to sleep'. You need to know how to activate it, and the same goes when it comes to memory. From time to time – and I'm doing it here with you – you need to go back in time, see the people from your past, try to think about their voice, behaviour, clothes even. That is what Proust did, wonderfully, that search into the past, into the lost time, which is not exactly lost, it is still there. Our past is part of ourselves, sometimes even more than the present is. The danger is to live only in the past. I mean, I enjoy fusing past and present... in the absence of the future since we don't know anything about it... as in 'to be today what I was yesterday, and see through what I was yesterday what I am today', which is like fusing them in order to ignore the passage of time. It is the only remedy we have, probably the only one we have against what we call time, which is, in fact, aging. It can't be time, because we can't see it, we can only see its effects. It is a bit like the wind, we see the branches in the trees moving, the leaves falling, but the wind itself, we can't see it.