Stardust (II) (2020)

Gord Rand: Michael Oberman

Quotes 

• 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.

• 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.

• Michael Oberman : Come on, he looks like Lauren fucking Bacall.

  Ron Oberman : Actually he prefers a latter day Garbo