- Independent filmmakers can now enjoy the same distribution apparatus that independent musicians have had for years.
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- He's a super fan of Lee. An acquaintance told me that Benicio had gotten him into Lee Perry. I was like, "no shit." I wanted him from jump. I respect his work.
- There's a lot of parallels. I've been working on the Lil B project for the last four years. We've been putting out his music on our label here, Permanent Marks, which actually produced the Lee Perry film. I met B four years ago, through Myspace. We did a track together and I got to know him. He had this whole "Based" lifestyle and mantra. I wanted to capture that. B and Lee are artists in the purest sense-they're very spontaneous in their delivery. Brandon's 21 and wise beyond his years. Like Lee, he'll work 20 hours a day, writing raps or making beats and he's on Twitter all day long. If he hasn't been on Twitter in a minute, he starts freaking out. He has to constantly reach out to his fans. That's part of the reason he's becoming so popular. He will write you back. He'll outlast you. Same with Lee-they'll outlast anybody. I escorted this Rolling Stone journalist to Switzerland. Lee definitely didn't want the dude there, and I think was pissed I brought him along. Lee started spray painting this whole room, and it was becoming so fumed out in there that you couldn't breathe. The journalist said, "I can't take it, what's going on?" and I said, "Dude, he's testing you right now. He's trying to outlast you. You have to stay and grin and bear it." B will do that with his fans. After one of his shows, he'll talk to every one of his fans until there's nobody left. They've got amazing amounts of stamina.
- It's been such a blessing to get to know Lee and his family. He has a special, strange, incredible energy about him. We met him at a point in his life when he was really ready to open up. It's just been a huge gift.
- That's why it's so grainy but we kinda like that-hey, this is Lee Perry's VHS tape. That was the most compelling stuff that I saw doing the research, and we based the film around that. We thought it captured Lee at a pivotal point in his life, after he'd burned down the studio and driven everybody away from him. His career was in flux, he was going mad. We felt that footage really captured that tension in his life, and no one had seen it before. It also showed Lee Perry doing the same things he's doing now. He's painting...Speaking Bible verses... He's been doing the same thing for 40 years. Everyone's like, "Oh, he's crazy." Well, he's pretty spot on with what he's doing. Nothing's really changed. If you decipher what he's saying, it's really beautiful. I think the last scene in our film really exemplifies how he's just a magician with words. If you think you can out-word Lee Perry, you have something coming to you. We put that in [to show] in the current day, he's still sharp as a nail.
- There was a lot of burning involved. Fire is very important to Lee. He creates things, and then burns them; he has no interest in preserving his work, or items that for most of us would be of lasting significance.
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