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00:00Hi, my name is Stern Leibovitz, and these are my five points of culture, whatever that

00:12means.

00:16I wish that I had even expected sources of inspiration.

00:19I feel like you never know.

00:20You can be walking down the street, make a thing of something, you can be reading, and

00:23I don't mean you have to be reading Middlemarch, you know, look it up.

00:27In general, most things are annoying.

00:29You have to agree, or you don't have to agree, but I would agree with myself that something

00:33that simply isn't annoying, I'm grateful for.

00:36I spent last week at the Met in the restoration studio with a Rembrandt.

00:41I was like four inches from this painting for like three hours, and I was with the woman

00:46who restored it.

00:47And I said, what do you do?

00:50She said, we clean.

00:51I clean it.

00:52I said, really?

00:53With turpentine?

00:54She said, yes.

00:55I said, you put turpentine on a Rembrandt?

00:56She said, yes.

00:57I said, did you ever think, what if I sneeze?

01:01So that was very inspiring, but that would be everyone, well, maybe not everyone, but

01:05most sighted people would be inspired by this.

01:11A writer who's important to me, a current writer, I don't know what you mean by important.

01:15There are many, well, there are several current writers whose work I really like.

01:19Wally Shawn, Debbie Eisenberg, Lynn Tillman, I mean, I love Colson Whitehead's work.

01:24There are quite a few writers that I like.

01:29Last year, I think I saw Yuja Wong twice.

01:31She's fantastic.

01:32I used to go to the New York City Ballet all the time.

01:34Now, a long time ago, when Balanchine was alive and Jerry Robbins were alive, and Baryshnikov

01:41was dancing, and Maria was dancing.

01:45During that era, there were, I would say, ballet lunatics in the audience.

01:50I mean, people who otherwise would be hospitalized.

01:55So knowing that you have a very erudite audience is a very good thing for an artist, even though

02:02it may not be a very pleasant thing.

02:05How often those things go hand in hand.

02:08This is the greatest thing I've seen, at least in a year, new.

02:11And this is Marty's new movie, called Killers of the Flower Moon.

02:14Not just one of Marty's greatest movies, one of the greatest movies I've ever seen.

02:19There's nothing, not even a shot, not a second, not a line of dialogue that you ever saw before.

02:24You're young, so there may be many things like that, but I've never seen this before.

02:29I know people talk about clothes all the time, but very few people seem to have any knowledge

02:34at all of clothes.

02:35Understand there's a difference between fashion and style.

02:37So things may be in fashion, but maybe you shouldn't wear them.

02:42I would really like adults to dress like adults.

02:45And that used to be a good thing.

02:47And so children look cute in children's clothes, but adults don't.

02:51They look either deviant or like a slob.

02:55Usually more like a slob.

02:59The culture needs more knowledge and less opinion.

03:03I mean, you're entitled to your opinion, but I want to hear it.

03:10My least favorite thing is people who keep saying, you know, do you think New York is over?

03:13No.

03:14Or people who say, you know, where would you live if you couldn't live in New York?

03:18And I always think, why couldn't I live in New York?

03:20Okay, the reason to live in New York is because everyone can live in New York.

03:25Everyone can live in New York.

03:26I mean, no one can afford to live in New York, and yet everyone can live in New York.

03:31Being a good conversationalist is important to me.

03:33I mean, important to me and my friends.

03:35You know, having a sense of humor is also important.

03:38And a sense of humor doesn't mean you're funny.

03:41It means, you know, things can be funny.

03:43People don't know this about me, but people show me their babies to see how smart they

03:46are, and I can always tell.

03:48And I can tell if babies, you can make babies laugh.

03:52If they can't, if they don't laugh, forget it, this baby's not smart.

03:57Don't spend a lot of money educating this kid.

03:58It's not gonna, it's not gonna work.

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