美国往事

“The peculiarity of opium is a drug that makes you imagine the future as the past. Opium creates visions of the future. Other drugs only make you see the past. Thus whilst Noodles dreams how his life could have been and whilst he imagines his future, it gives me, as a European director, the possibility of dreaming inside American myth. And that's it, the ideal combination. We walk together. Noodles with his dream. And me with mine. These are two poems that fuse together. Because, as far as the matters which concern me, Noodles never leaves 1930. He dreams everything. All the film is the opium dream of Noodles through which I dream of the phantoms of cinema and American myths.”

“鸦片这种毒品的特殊性是能使人可以将未来想象为过去。鸦片创造了对未来的愿景。 其他毒品只会让您看到过去。 因此，尽管Noodles梦想着自己的未来能变成怎样，当他想象着自己的未来时，对我来讲，作为一位欧洲导演，这同时给了我在美国神话中梦想的可能性。 就是这样，理想的组合。 我们共同进退。 Noodles与他的梦想和我一起。这是两首融合在一起的诗。因为就我所能想到的事情而言，Noodles从未离开过1930年。他梦想着一切。 整部电影都是Noodles的鸦片梦与我梦想的电影的幻影和美国神话。”