PP: Film is a lying media.
WH: It’s beautiful to invent. And truth is not found in facts per se. In Philippe’s case, there’s a deeper truth in what he’s doing–an ecstasy of truth. And he’s discovering, of course, walking in the sky, in the clouds, means a form of ecstasy–a quintessential metaphor of an ecstatic moment. There’s a truth in it that we can somehow function beyond our limitations. He can walk in the skies.
PP: Truth deserves more than being factually recorded.
WH: We have to be cautious when we use this term “truth”–let’s touch this only with a pair of pliers. Not even a mathematician or a philosopher could give you a real definition of it.