Keepin' It Real

Lee: You always work by candlelight?
Austin: No-uh-Not always.
Lee: Just sometimes?
Austin: (puts pen down, rubs his eyes) Yeah. Sometimes it's soothing.
Lee: Isn't that what the old guys did?
Austin: What old guys?
Lee: The Forefathers. You know.
Austin: Forefathers?
Lee: Isn't that what they did? Candlelight burning into the night? Cabins in the wilderness?
Austin: (rubs hand through his hair) I suppose.
Lee: I'm not botherin' you am I? I mean I don't wanna break into yer uh- concentration or nothin'.
Austin: No, it's all right.
Lee: That's good. I mean I realize that yer line a' work demands a lot of concentration.
Austin: It's okay.
Lee: You probably think that I'm not fully able to comprehend somethin' like that, huh?
Austin: Like what?
Lee: That stuff yer doin'. That art. You know. Whatever you call it.
Austin: It's just a little research.
Lee: You may not know this but I did a little art myself once.
Austin: You did?
Lee: Yeah! I did some a' that. I fooled around with it. No future in it.
Austin: What'd you do?
Lee: Never mind what I did! Just never mind about that. (pause)
It was ahead of its time. - Sam Shepard, True West