I seldom watch a movie twice. If I do, it`s 1) because it has a particular significance for me or 2) because I show it to a friend. But more often than not, the movies that belong to category 2) also take on a certain significance. So it happened with Truffaut´s La Nuit Americaine, which I saw first on my birthday two years ago and now again. I began to ask yourself: What are the themes that move me now the same as then, and which of these come up in the movie? In my case it`s the piece-by-piece work of writing – or making a movie. Some of the protagonists – the actors – might not act like you want them to, they might even have a serious drinking problem. Sometimes, you have to write – shoot something – twice because your camera/computer has decided to give up its ghost at half-time. You might find yourself writing about writing – making a movie about making a movie. And in the middle of it all, you might say to yourself: Okay, it started out nice, but up from now I`m basically just trying to survive.

Ob ĂĽber das Schreiben zu schreiben nicht weniger Selbstbeschreibung und Selbstbefragung als Verwunderung ĂĽber das was wir tun und ĂĽber das was wir in Bezug auf uns selber tun ist ?