"Time spent traveling on trains, just staring out the window: I don't think that's lost time. That's when we have our best ideas." –Kim Krizan
In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Kiki introduce their interview with Kim Krizan by talking about their own personal love of the movie Before Sunrise, and how they first experienced it (0:30); Kim talks about her early travel experiences in Czechoslovakia as a teenager, and in England in her twenties (14:30); how the low-information technological moment of travel in the 1990s doesn't exist anymore in the 2020s (23:30); how Kim became involved with helping Richard Linklater write Before Sunrise, and their creative process in working together (34:00); Kim's ongoing relationship to the movie, 30 years after it came out (44:00); and an "Easter egg" segment featuring Kiki reading Melissa Fite Johnson's poem "Before Sunrise on the VCR" (55:30).
Kim Krizan (@kimkrizan) is the Oscar-nominated cowriter of the Before Sunrise movies, and the author of Spy in the House of Anaïs Nin.
Kristen “Kiki” Bush is an actress, known for Paterno, Liberal Arts, Suits, Law & Order: SVU, and onstage performances at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public, and Lincoln Center.
Notable Links:
- 2025 Screenwriting in Paris class, with Kim Krizan (creative writing class)
- Paris Writing Workshops (summer learning-vacation classes)
- Before Sunrise (1995 movie)
- Before Sunset (2004 movie)
- Ethan Hawke (American actor and director)
- Julie Delpy (French actress and director)
- Richard Linklater (American filmmaker)
- Kristen "Kiki" Bush in People, Places & Things (2022 play at the Studio Theatre)
- Thoughts on watching the Before trilogy, 25 years on, by Rolf Potts (essay)
- BritRail (train pass in the UK)
- London A-Z (street atlas)
- Siouxsie and the Banshees (British rock band)
- Wembley Stadium (London venue)
- Continuous partial attention (behavior)
- Slacker (1990 film)
- Dazed and Confused (1993 film)
- Anaïs Nin (French-American diarist and novelist)
- Eurail Pass (train pass to 33 European countries)
- The Game Camera (trailer for 2025 short film made by Kiki and Rolf)
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