Stardust (II) (2020)

Johnny Flynn: David Bowie

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• Ron Oberman : Okay, the thing to remember about LA is that they love an exotic Englishman out here, all right? They're going to be endless kissing your ass and promising you the world.

  David Bowie : Yeah, sounds awful.

  Ron Oberman : Just remember, it's not reality, all right? This is an insane, fucked up city of lies. It's like rock candy mountain or the fun fair in Pinocchio.

• Ron Oberman : I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm a fucking minority of one but all it takes is one believer to change the world, right? And we got two.

  David Bowie : Two?

  Ron Oberman : You believe in yourself, don't you? Because if you don't, we're really fucked.

• Tom Classon : Talk to me about the mask. I mean is this, is this part of your show?

  David Bowie : Sometimes. It's just the way of concentrating an audience's attention, like um, a Japanese form of movement, like kabuki theater.

• Leather Girl : Wanna come do some coke with me?

  David Bowie : Do I ever.

• David Bowie : Honestly, I, I think that rock is the devil's music.

• David Bowie : He was my educator in matters of taste. Terry's drawn to dives and fleshpots, the world's dark places.

  Ron Oberman : Sounds like quite a character.

  David Bowie : Oh yeah, I think I'm just his shadow, really.

• 2nd Immigration Officer : Sir, does this garment belong to you?

  David Bowie : Uh, ye, yeah.

  2nd Immigration Officer : You dress in women's clothes?

  David Bowie : It's a man's dress, actually. It's by Michael Fish, he's, he invented the kipper tie.

• David Bowie : Well, you know, strong hash can really mess with your gourd. The first time I got high, I just got intensely fascinated by the cracks in the pavement.

• David Bowie : I like to surprise, create a different dimension to a performance.

• David Bowie : I don't even care that he was fake.

  Ron Oberman : Why?

  David Bowie : Well, you know, a rock star or somebody impersonating a rock star, what's the difference?

• David Bowie : I need them to know me.

• Ron Oberman : Maybe things'll look better in the morning.

  David Bowie : Probably not.

• David Bowie : I am an alien god, my people need me.

• David Bowie : You've got to stretch people, get a reaction.

• Ron Oberman : Fuckin' look at you, man. You're real.

  David Bowie : Yeah, the last time I checked.

• David Bowie : Dave Bowie is the image and David Jones is me, but uh, David Bowie is not a false person. I mean, I am also David Bowie.

  Michael Oberman : Feels a little schizophrenic to me.

• Mick Ronson : You are not a space alien.

  David Bowie : Oh yes I am.

  Mick Ronson : You are not an alien. You're from Bromley, man.

• David Bowie : It's like, um, like a gang right? Like the Clockwork Orange.

• Michael Oberman : Do you have trouble separating fantasy from reality?

  David Bowie : Um, well, I mean, I don't want to um, I don't want to climb out of my fantasies to um, go up on stage. I want to, I want to take them out there with me.

  Michael Oberman : Okay, so, if I'm at one of your concerts, what am I getting? A fantasist?

  David Bowie : A tart.

  Michael Oberman : What?

  David Bowie : A harlot.

  Michael Oberman : This is how you see your role as an artist?

  David Bowie : Yes. I mean well I, I think that music should be tarted up. It should be, should be made into a prostitute, a parody of itself.

  Michael Oberman : A parody?

  David Bowie : Yes, yes, well I think music should be the, um, should be the clown, should be the Pierrot.

  Michael Oberman : Pierrot? The pantomime fool?

  David Bowie : I mean only that um, well that music is the mask that the message wears and I, I, the performer, yeah, I am the message.

  Michael Oberman : I'm sorry. What is the message? What I want to nail here is what's the one constant? What's the, the thing you carry into every song, concert?

  David Bowie : It's like, um... It's like a uh... A bad seed.

• Ron Oberman : I mean, if you can't be yourself...

  David Bowie : Well, I can't, can I?

  Ron Oberman : Well then be someone else. Be someone else.

  David Bowie : Who?

  Ron Oberman : I don't fucking know.

  David Bowie : Well, thank you. That was extremely unhelpful.

• David Bowie : Aliens don't mingle, Tony.