The Heart Wants What It Wants

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A. She said, Can we stop this grotesque publicity circus? And I said, You have hired a lawyer, you're parading relatives and the kids on television, you leaked this videotape of Dylan unconscionably. She said, Can't we negotiate this? And I said, First you must clear my name unequivocally. And if you do that and we can agree to give Dylan some real therapy to get over the dreadful scars of this thing, and I am part supervisor of that therapy, then O.K., we can see if there's a way of toning things down.

Q. Do you use your movies to work through dilemmas you're facing in life?

A. No, people always confuse my movies and my life.

Q. But don't you confuse your movies and your life?

A. No. Movies are fiction. The plots of my movies don't have any relationship to my life. My next movie is a murder mystery.

Q. Who's going to get murdered?

A. Oh, some stranger.

Q. Inappropriate love with younger women seems to be a theme in your movies and in your life, right?

A. It's not a theme in my life. I've been married twice, both times to women practically my age. My two other relationships -- Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow -- they're not really much younger women.

Q. Will your relationship with Soon-Yi continue?

A. Yes. I'm in love with her. As soon as the reporters go away, we'll do the things we like to do. We'll walk and eat out and go to the movies and basketball games.

Q. What's your emotional bond, since it's not intellectual?

A. It's fully dimensional. I would not be interested in someone who's not interesting.

Q. Do you consider it a healthy, equal relationship?

A. Well, who knows? It's perfectly healthy. But I don't think equal is necessarily a desideratum. Sometimes equality in a relationship is great, sometimes inequality makes it work. But it's an equal-opportunity relationship. I mean, I'm not equal to her in certain ways.

The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to those things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that.