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By Robert A. Olstein
The Importance of Excess Cash Flow
It is safer to buy only those companies that generate or are about to generate excess cash flow, and value those companies based on excess cash flow. Excess-cash-flow companies can raise dividends, buy back shares, make strategic acquisitions when credit is tight, ride out hard times without adopting short-term strategies injurious to their future, and are outstanding acquisition candidates. The challenge for investors is to cut through any accounting and financial chicanery and determine a company's true ability to generate excess cash flow. The numbers are the most important and unbiased indicator of a company's value. Better to spend one night with a company's financial statements than two days with its management.
An intensive inferential analysis of financial statements, footnotes, supporting documents, and disclosure practices is the best way to analyze the capabilities of management, the economic reality of the financial information the company provides, the conservatism of its accounting and disclosure practices, its financial strength, and, ultimately, the value of the company. An intensive inferential analysis of financial statements also enables an investor or advisor to determine true financial strength and to screen for potential problems to ascertain a company's downside risk, a critical consideration before considering its potential for capital appreciation.
For an investor, an equity security is worth the discounted value of the issuing company's future expected excess cash flow (including capital expenditures and working capital needs). Thus, to value a company according to a model of discounted excess cash flow, one must be able to adjust reported earnings to arrive at true cash earnings (excess cash flow).
Inferential analysis begins with an understanding that GAAP requires a company to report earnings on an accrual basis, which entails two basic premises. First, because accrual accounting states that revenue is recognized when a transaction occurs in which value has been exchanged, this event may lead or lag the exchange of cash. Second, because the cost of a transaction should be recognized over the same period of time as the revenue associated with that cost, this period may also lead or lag the passing of cash.
In reporting GAAP-based earnings, companies have wide discretion, which includes many assumptions about the future. Because management has a vested interest in putting its best foot forward, the numbers produced under GAAP often leave room for unrealistic assumptions and misleading numbers. Most companies use financial accounting and reporting practices to present themselves in the most favorable light, meaning that many companies engage in some type of earnings management or make assumptions that may prove to be unrealistic.
Within limits, earnings management is neither wrong nor illegal. However, as seen during the late 1990s, some companies far exceeded what most would consider reasonable limits. In cases such as Enron, Lucent Technologies, Boston Chicken, and Sunbeam, while the financial statements may have been in accord with GAAP, they were certainly out of touch with economic reality. It is in management's best interest to report the best earnings possible to preserve financing alternatives, keep their stock options valuable and exercisable, and maintain shareholders through increasing stock prices. Thus, in instances when management identifies a problem which, due to bias or ego, it deems to be temporary, the company can adopt optimistic assumptions or accounting alternatives under GAAP to portray a positive picture until the problem is resolved.
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An astute investor should be aware of the types of accounting smokescreens that companies use to disguise problems and to misrepresent the company's economic reality. The following alerts are sometimes clear indicators of future earnings surprises and have proved valuable to investors:
Real-life examples of these accounting alerts include the following:
America Online, in its early stages of development, surprised and disappointed investors when the reality of the company's accounting policy of deferring marketing costs came under scrutiny. AOL's year-to-year increases in deferred marketing costs accounted for more than 100% of its earnings. Subscriber cancellations were more rapid than AOL's two-year write-off policy. Interestingly, during the period when the company's marketing expense capitalization policies deviated from economic reality, the stock was penalized in the market. When AOL wrote off its marketing expenses and changed its accounting policy, recognizing marketing expenses on a current basis, the stock rallied strongly. Investors were enthusiastic over the company's future once the accounting cloud was removed.
Starting in 1993, Cendant Corporation, through purchase-acquisition accounting, was able to report growth rates, including acquisitions to shareholders, in excess of 30%, far beyond its true internal growth rate, estimated at 11% or less (excluding acquisition). Cendant eventually paid the price for acquisition-driven growth after its 1997 acquisition of CUC International, a company that was cooking the books. An investor could have reached this conclusion through careful analysis of Cendant's footnotes pertaining to acquisitions.
For example, a review of Eastman Kodak's fourth-quarter 1998 shareholder release showed that the company reduced R&D expenditures in 1998, contributing $0.33 per share to year-to-year earnings comparisons. Technology companies should not derive their growth from cuts in research-and-development expenditures. Maintenance expenditures are important to airlines and offshore drillers and should be monitored on a comparative basis. Marketing expenses are important to consumer-product companies, and reductions in such key expenses should not be the source of year-to-year earnings growth.
Net Income + Depreciation – Capital Expenditures +/– Changes in Working Capital = Free Cash Flow
Rather than relying on numbers for only one year, investors should evaluate normalized levels for capital expenditures and working capital needs over many years. A company consistently reporting earnings that are materially higher than cash flow from operations raises a red flag alert. Identifying Enron's continued reporting of negative cash flow despite reporting sizeable earnings to shareholders could have saved knowledgeable investors from eventual disaster. It is very important to continually assess a company's ability to produce future excess cash flow, as accrual accounting numbers under GAAP can be distorted based on unrealistic assumptions.
Disclosed Information May Not Tell the Whole Story
It is also important to assess a company's disclosure practices and determine whether information essential to its valuation is omitted from the financial statements and supporting schedules. The risk of undisclosed information must be factored into the valuation process by reducing the multiple of cash flow (as far as zero) that an investor is willing to pay to purchase a company. Enron had limited disclosure as to the nature of the earnings developed by its off–balance-sheet entities, yet these entities were material earnings contributors to the company's bottom line.
The latest bout of Wall Street's casual acceptance of the numbers as presented, however suspicious, is similar to past financial and accounting crises. The current period is reminiscent of the 1970s, when audit failures such as Equity Funding and Stirling Homex, as well as the accounting games played by computer lessors and land development companies, wiped out billions of dollars of net worth while an economic boom turned into a recession. Like today, the investing public, the financial press, and government representatives called for more government regulation. Despite the recent bad news, the disclosure practices of public corporations have greatly improved over the past 30 years. While the financial reporting system can always be improved, and new business practices require constant adaptation, all reporting relies on management judgment, leaving room for unrealistic assumptions or potential abuse.
Improvements in disclosure practices have resulted in financial statement analysis becoming more difficult and time-consuming. Today, a wealth of information not available 30 years ago is found in the footnotes and management discussions of annual reports, for anyone with a skeptical eye. The analyst and investor community has the responsibility to assess these new disclosures, adjust earnings for unrealistic reporting, and expose corporations whose disclosures are inadequate.
An investment discipline that adjusts corporate earnings for economic reality in both bull and bear markets provides investors with a competitive advantage over others in seeking long-term capital appreciation. A discipline that values companies on the basis of their ability to create excess cash flow in all markets gives investors an edge. GAAP and economic reality can be worlds apart, but an inferential analysis of financial statements will help bridge the gap when it occurs. If the portfolio management and financial analyst community regularly adjusted reported corporate earnings for deviations from economic reality in all markets, future accounting crises could be greatly diminished.
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I chose oshawott because of its epic final ev but i liked tepig shiny form.Then i saw its defence and chose oshi
I chose oshawott because of its epic final ev but i liked tepig shiny form.Then i saw its defence and chose oshi
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I will choose the opposite type so i will go with snivy.
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I usually choose the Fire starter, but I went with Snivy this time. I really like its design (and hate Tepig's).
I'm considering choosing Oshawott in Black 2, though.
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It was very easy for me. I never choose water as my starter type, i don´t like tepig line design and snakes are my favourite "real" animals. So.. Snivy
I chose tepig in black because I always pick fire but on white I chose Oshawott because its cute XD
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I chose Oshawott in my first playthrough because water-types are always my favourite. 2nd time, i picked Snivy. I'll give Tepig a go once Black/White 2 are released.
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White: Snivy Black: Oshawott. I usually choose the one that I think looks the best, so that's why Snivy. When I got Black I wanted to start it with different Pokémon so I chose Oshawott. I'm not a big fan of Tepig really.
I was going to choose Snivy, then I saw Lilligant and decided that was going to be my awesome grass type. Ended up picking Oshawott, and I do love it's final evo.
Hey, there! I'm pretty new to this, and I'm always up to trade or help If you need it.(Though, I don't have much right now :/)
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I've played through the game with all three starters, but the one I enjoyed the most was with Tepig.
Teams were:
Serperior, Gothitelle, Simipour, Darmanitan, Galvantula, Archeops
Samurott, Haxorus, Chandelure, Scrafty, Ferrothorn, Gigalith
Emboar, Seismitoad, Klinklang, Lilligant, Zoroark, Sigilyph
Well I'm pretty late here
But before BW, I was really excited in choosing Snivy.
The other two were awesome, but the Snivy cut it out for me.
And I didn't regret choosing it either :]
*Hoenn is where the start is*
I originally tried Snivy. Turns out that Serperior has a pathetic movepool and it does not hit hard like the Fire-types I am used to.
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I've done all three, actually. I find Snivy to have the easiest time though.
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I chose Tepig in white, but Oshawott in White 2. Mainly because I like both way too much.
Snivy's aight.
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I chose Snivy in Black, and I chose Oshawott in both White and Black 2. In the end, I only continued using my Serperior. Honestly, it's the only one that has been interesting so far. I like its design, and I kind of like that it's the underdog of the three.
^ This is the reason why I like arguing. If I come off as standoffish or overly angry in an argument, don't worry. I'm probably having the time of my life. Whether I agree with them or not, the pokemon fandom has a lot of different opinions, and I love how nobody is afraid to share them.even if we don't understand each other, that's not a reason to reject each other. There are two sides to any argument. Is there one point of view that has all the answers? Give it some thought.
I have picked Oshawott for both. Might switch it up in a different playthrough.
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I chose Oshawott only because my brother picked Snivy, and I didn't want Tepig.
Though to be honest with you, Samurott is a pretty good Pokémon, able to take hits well, and strike back with Revenge. I think her Nature is either Brave or Bold, I'm not sure, not that I care about Natures to begin with, but she's a favorite of mine. I wouldn't go out of my way to say she's my powerhouse or trump card, but she's an important part of my team, so I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I picked snivy because serperior is a boss, and im not disappointed in it, despite its stats...
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12:10 PM ET, July 25, 2012
Citi Field, New York, New York
NEW YORK -- Stephen Strasburg gave a sneaky grin and a confident "yeah" when asked whether he was being more aggressive on the mound. He knew what the question was in reference to, and he appeared to have been waiting five days to answer it.
After the righty's previous start, manager Davey Johnsons said, "He really doesn't know who he is at times." Strasburg knew who he was Wednesday all right:Dominant.The 24-year-old ace struck out 11 in seven innings, Michael Morse and Danny Espinosa hit consecutive homers and the Washington Nationals completed a sweep of the free-falling New York Mets with a 5-2 victory."Once the lights are on and you're facing another team, you want to go out there to make your stuff really dirty," Strasburg said. "It's something where I think when I take a step back and relax and let it happen instead of forcing the issue it helps out."Adam LaRoche hit a two-run homer for a second straight day, and Espinosa doubled and scored on one of the Mets' two errors in the Nationals' fifth win in a row. The team with the NL's best record (58-39) has won seven of 10.Johnson said Strasburg "doesn't trust his stuff" after he gave up four runs in the sixth inning of his prior start -- the game in which the Braves rallied in the rain from a 9-0 deficit to beat the Nationals 11-10 in 11 innings. Strasburg was in command this time.Strasburg (11-4) struck out five in a row and gave up four hits in matching his career best for innings, done seven times."That's him, that's the way he should pitch. He was very pitch efficient from the get-go. He went right after guys," Johnson said. "He's still learning how to pitch in this league. ... He's still a work in progress."Ike Davis homered for New York in the finale of an 0-6 homestand."Since they kicked me out of town, I like coming in for the sweep," Johnson said of being fired by the Mets in 1990.The Mets' 1-11 slide after the All-Star break is approaching their record for futility to start the second half. The only team worse in club history was its first. The 1962 Mets won just one of their first 15 games and set a record for losses with a 40-120 record."We're going to get through it. You will see a different team in the next 10 days, the next two weeks," manager Terry Collins said. "We're through making excuses."After the game, the Mets called up catcher Rob Johnson from Triple-A Buffalo and sent down catcher Mike Nickeas. Johnson was Matt Harvey's batterymate in Buffalo, and the team's top prospect is set to make his major league debut Thursday in Arizona.These Mets went into the All-Star break 46-40 and optimistic they would compete for one of two NL wild-card spots. But injuries to ace Johan Santana and Dillon Gee and an offense that has stalled has New York fading fast. The Mets have lost 12 games in a span of 13 for first time since 2004.Facing Strasburg didn't help the slump.Other than allowing Davis' blistering line drive into the right field stands on the first pitch of the second inning and Daniel Murphy's single in the next at-bat, Strasburg allowed only Josh Thole's ground-rule double in the fifth and Jordany Valdespin's single in the sixth.Strasburg reached double digits in strikeouts for the fourth time this season and seventh of his young career, striking out David Wright three times. On the last K, a frustrated Wright tossed all his equipment.Wright grounded out with runners on second and third against reliever Drew Storen to end the eighth. The Mets had scored a run on Valdespin's grounder after walking the bases loaded."Losing is one thing," Wright said. "The way that we're going about it right now is unacceptable."Tyler Clippard, the Nationals' fifth reliever, pitched a perfect ninth for his 18 save in 20 chances since taking over the closer role in May.Strasburg reached 97 mph on the scoreboard radar, and had at least one strikeout in each inning but the second. He fanned five in a row beginning with Valdespin to start the third.His command was "perfect," catcher Sandy Leon said. "Today was perfect."The big right-hander has 25 K's in 18 innings against the Mets in his career.Starting for Santana, Jeremy Hefner (1-4) labored through six innings, but gave the Mets a chance by working out of several jams. He gave up six hits and three runs -- two earned -- in his fourth big league start. Hefner struck out seven and walked two.Hefner put runners on in each inning but the fifth. Morse led off the second with an opposite field drive into the lower deck in right. Espinosa then pulled one halfway up the overhanging upper deck in right field to extend his hitting streak to 11 games.Davis quickly got a run back in the bottom half with his 16th homer.Espinosa doubled and scored in the fourth when he broke for home on Leon's soft grounder to Davis, who fielded the ball on the grass in front of first base. Davis' throw was on the mark but catcher Thole could not hold onto the throw to tag the sliding Espinosa. Thole was given an error and the Nationals led 3-1.La Roche hit a long drive to right field in the seventh off Tim Byrdak an out after Bryce Harper walked for a 5-1 lead.Game notes
Mets closer Frank Francisco (knee) allowed one run and three hits in two-thirds of an inning during a rehabilitation appearance with Double-A Binghamton on Wednesday. ... Nationals OF Jayson Werth (broken wrist) played five innings in a rehab start for Triple-A Syracuse. He went 0 for 3. ... Washington is 9-3 against New York this season.
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Scoring Summary
2nd | M Morse homered to right (348 feet). | 1 | 0 | |
2nd | D Espinosa homered to right (385 feet). | 2 | 0 | |
2nd | I Davis homered to right (370 feet). | 2 | 1 | |
4th | S Leon grounded into fielder's choice to first, D Espinosa scored, R Bernadina safe at second on error by catcher J Thole. | 3 | 1 | |
7th | A LaRoche homered to right (406 feet), B Harper scored. | 5 | 1 | |
8th | J Valdespin grounded out to pitcher, J Thole scored, A Torres to third, S Hairston to second. | 5 | 2 | |
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Game Information
Stadium | Citi Field, New York, NY |
Attendance | 35,517 (84.7% full) - % is based on regular season capacity |
Game Time | 2:53 |
Weather | 80 degrees, sunny |
Wind | 9 mph |
Umpires | Home Plate - Jim Wolf, First Base - Derryl Cousins, Second Base - Alan Porter, Third Base - David Rackley |
Research Notes
Stephen Strasburg leads the majors in strikeouts despite ranking outside the top 50 in innings pitched. Among all qualified starters age 25 or younger over the last 100 years, Kerry Wood in 1998 is the only one to average more strikeouts per 9 innings. [+]Most Strikeouts Per 9 IP - Starters Age 25 or Younger Last 100 Years
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Do writ petitions pit desperation against procedure? It seems like they do.
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CRESCENT CITY, Calif. — It starts with a roll of paper and ends up as a lip balm tube, patented as The Eco Tube. Beyond the eco tube, there's also the eco jar for shea butter and other creams. The paper doesn't leak or fall apart because the products inside are oil-based, and don't contain water.
The idea started four years ago when the body of a dead whale washed up on a Crescent City Beach. It had starved to death because its stomach was full of plastic. At that time, CEO & Founder of Eco Vision, Ellery West, was making organic body care products, but the sustainability of the packaging didn't match what was inside.
"Part of our vision of seeing all the plastic packaging that we use and throw away and it lasts for thousands of years," says West, "These kind of packages can be used and recycled or composted in your backyard."
Since then, Eco Vision has created biodegradable packaging in several sizes. Eco Vision is hoping to up the investment money from the Southern Oregon Angel Network. Eco Vision says the most important part of this whole process has been getting feedback from the S.O. Angels. The mentoring and coaching has helped the company improve its business plan.


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Legislation sponsored by Rep. Todd Stephens (R-Montgomery) to expand the list of those mandated to report suspected child abuse has unanimously passed the Children and Youth Committee.
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"My legislation, which largely tracks the recommendations of the Task Force on Child Protection empaneled following the issues at Penn State University, will ensure when a child in Pennsylvania is abused the authorities will be notified," Stephens said.
Under House Bill 436, those required to report suspected child abuse include all school personnel, including those at colleges and universities; child care providers; religious leaders; physicians and other health care workers; social services workers; law enforcement officers; attorneys; librarians; emergency medical service providers; and employees and independent contractors of each of these entities.
The bill fulfills a recommendation by the Task Force on Child Protection to clarify the law on who must report suspected child abuse, but it also increases the penalties for failing to do so to a felony in the most egregious circumstances.
"I believe we all share an obligation to protect Pennsylvania's children," Stephens continued. "But those in positions of trust or who are responsible for caring for our children must be vigilant in reporting suspected child abuse."
As a member of the Children and Youth Committee, Stephens also supported five other bills to improve child safety.
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House Bill 430-This legislation would improve the procedures for reporting child abuse in Pennsylvania by eliminating chain-of-command reporting within organizations and institutions, allowing for Internet and email reporting, and would institute a cross reporting requirement to ensure that reports of suspected child abuse are sent to the proper authorities.
House Bill 433-This would provide for additional safeguards and due process with respect to the outcome of a child abuse investigation by requiring that the county Children and Youth Agency director and solicitor approve indicated reports of child abuse and provide a specific timeline for appeals of the outcome of a child abuse investigation.
House Bill 434-This bill ensures that school employees are subject to the same investigations and held to the same standards as parents, child care workers and other perpetrators of child abuse.
House Bill 435-- Expands and clarifies background clearance requirements and bars to employment for individuals who, in a paid or volunteer position, are responsible for the welfare of a child.
House Bill 726--Amends the definitions of child abuse and related terms in the Child Protective Services Law.
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Paula Deen Announces 2014 Tour
The chef and entrepreneur confirms that, indeed, the show will feature lots of audience participation, including some of her all-time favorite parlor games. "We are going to play musical chairs and the dating game with the audience. That's the excitement of it all -- my fans get to be a part of the show," she says. "I'll also invite some folks in the audience to come onstage and cook with me."
Deen's husband, who was most recently seen onstage at the chef's culinary demonstration at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival in Miami Beach a few months ago, will once again serve as Deen's partner and foil. "My husband, Michael, will be with me, and the crowd just loves him. He's an integral part of the show. And he will put me in my place in a New York minute! We have so much fun bantering back and forth with each other." The lady also seems to have some other tricks and surprise guests up her sleeve. Asked if her sons, Jamie and Bobby Deen, might also join her onstage, she says, "You never know who is going to show up."
Deen says the tour and new restaurant mark the beginning of a host of new projects she's working on. Although she won't divulge exactly what they are, she says that the tour and Paula Deen's Family Kitchen are keeping her "very busy" and that "this is only the beginning. I can't wait to announce them and for y'all to be a part of it."
If you want to be a part of Paula Deen Live!, tickets go on sale to the general public through Ticketmaster Thursday, May 1, at 10 a.m. Superfans can purchase VIP experiences that include a reception with hors d'oeuvres, beer and wine, a meet-and-greet, photo opportunities, gift bags, and exclusive seating. For more information, visit pauladeen.com.
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Randy Brown, FAIA, LEED AP, is opposed to the typical suburban production home, so he designed the Elm model of the Hidden Creek 12-unit project to fly in the face of convention. One judge liked that it is a "house form that has some potential to be modified."
Because the development is adjacent to a nature preserve, Brown sited the house on a small lot and planted it with native grasses to promote natural drainage. "The high density and limited yard space work, because homeowners can easily walk the trails and use the public park," he says.
Brown and his team arranged the modular house to animate the street and built it with an energy-efficient shell, geothermal and radiant heating, and recycled lumber, among other sustainable features. A "DIY" sod roof made with containers from The Home Depot provide additional green space. The firm kept costs in check with simple interior elements that require no finishing, such as exposed framing and polished concrete floors on the basement level.
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Mexican director Carlos Reygadas came to worldwide attention with his debut feature film Japon . Despite its title the film is set in the Mexican countryside and attracted plaudits for its ambiguous depiction of a man rediscovering his soul after a suicide attempt. Reygadas' second film Battle in Heaven, set in Mexico City , is an audacious portrayal of spiritual struggle.
Was there a particular inspiration for Battle in Heaven?
Yes, making a film in Mexico City was the basic inspiration and the idea of intercutting within sequences much more than I had done in Japon. In Japon it was camera movement, here it was cutting: I wanted to construct, to edit, the space and the colour and the sounds of each Point of View shot. Those were really the inspirations.
Do you feel that there's been an evolution in your filmmaking between Japon and Battle in Heaven?
A technical evolution: I have a better idea of exactly what I want. I can handle the tools better. I can materialise much better. In a deeper sense the evolution is maybe that I got a little more radical in the language, trusting further the method with the actors. Letting cinema construct the characters rather than actors constructing characters. I took that to a further extreme. Some people think that I took it too far.
Can you talk about that method?
I would say that my point of departure is the Kuleshov effect*, which for me is a complete insight into the essence of character construction in cinema. For me it shouldn't have anything to do with the theatre method of character construction but unfortunately this is how the characters are constructed still in cinema today. The method is basically not giving psychological information to actors, just giving them practical, spatial, temporal information and then letting the editing and the whole of the cinematic process construct the characters. So this is why I don't give them the screenplay or do any rehearsals or give them any psychological background of the characters at all, not even who they are. I would rather trust the energy that the actors give off by the fact that they just exist. This is the method. This is why I don't want them to express emotions. I think that a stronger kind of emotion can pass through if they don't express emotion. Unfortunately this pushes away some viewers who are not willing to accept different codes compared to what they're used to but, well, it's a price to pay.
In that case how do you decide who your actors are going to be?
It's true that if I got the casting wrong then the film wouldn't work because it's not a matter of technique. If you don't give off the right energy then it doesn't work. The funny thing is that you can only do it by instinct. The main actor Marcos was the point of departure for Battle in Heaven . I have known him for twenty-five years and I wrote everything around him so with him I couldn't get it wrong. The rest of the people: the moment I saw them I knew that they were right. It's exactly like a photographer. If you want to find the right tree for a photograph and you're out in the woods looking for trees then eventually you will see a tree that you like and something will tell you that it's the tree that you were looking for.
Doesn't that require a leap of faith for the actors to trust you sufficiently?
The only element that could compel them to do this film and not to run away during the middle of it is just trust: absolute trust. It's not money or a career or anything. They're just going to do the film, probably nothing afterwards for most of them and they have to do it because they trust that I will do something that they will like.
Your relationship with them must also be very important. Is it important that you work with people that you like, for example?
Yes, it is very important. If you don't like them then you have to spend a whole lot of time pretending and that wouldn't work. Although I will tell you that for example I liked the main lead in Japon but he could be a pain too, a real pain. So sometimes you do spend time taking a lot of crap but then that's part of the job you know? There I do feel very different from a director that would hire actors because you hire them for the work and that's it. Then if the actor doesn't work you don't have to speak to him afterwards if you don't want to, but here you have to have a strong human relationship so you have to take care of the actors all the time and this takes a lot of energy.
Were there any moments during the filmmaking when trust was a particular issue?
Yes definitely. For Bertha Ruiz, the fatso lady married to Marcos, the sexual scenes; for Marcos the scenes where he had to walk on the street bare-footed, he hated that. Some people asked me about the sexual things for him too but he couldn't care less about the sexual issues. He hated walking without a shirt and bare-footed in the street because people in cars were calling him a crazy bastard. He hated it, I don't know why. For Ana it was especially when she had to get up very early and had to wait around for a long time and all that. Those were the difficult parts for each of the three actors.
Given how visual your films are, how important is the preparation beforehand compared to the editing afterwards?
Preparing the film, when I write the script and do the storyboarding, is so important that I would say that the film would be pre-determined up to about 98%. Then of course I try to be open to the surprises that real life gives you. It doesn't mean that I'm closed to the future at all. It means that I have visualised the film in my head and that I want to materialise it now. It's very similar to what Hitchcock did except that because Hitchcock worked with actors and in studios and he had all the economical means he wouldn't get surprises. Since I have the luck that I don't have any of those three things I do get a lot of surprises and I take them willingly. Then the editing is very important too although that doesn't mean that the film is made in the editing room.
Would you consider yourself an auteur?
I don't really consider myself anything although I do know that when they talk about our third cinema as opposed to commercial cinema for me it's the method that defines both. It's not whether the films are commercial or not because in the end many commercial films are non-commercial and many non-commercial films are commercial, if it's a question of making money. The question is the method. Decisions for commercial films are taken to extract this big mucus called 'the viewer' - an abstraction that I believe doesn't exist - so you take decisions in order to please as many people as possible. The other method is deciding on your own tastes and your convictions. For me these are the only two ways of doing things and I only take decisions according to my own tastes and convictions.
What is your attitude towards narrative in your films?
Narrative for me is just a vehicle that is probably an evil but a necessary evil. You do need a story but I don't care about story because I know that the same story told in a mediocre way is mediocre and the same story told properly is a great story. So I really feel much closer to painting or music where narrative is not important. Some people think that narrative is important in painting but I don't think that it is. When I go with my mother, who is a psychologist, to see paintings by Rubens she's always saying which particular myth a painting is from. I always say don't be so bothered about who the people are: just watch the painting and feel it.
What about the dichotomy between spirituality and religion that appears to inform both your feature films?
Religion is a very open thing. It has spirituality on the one hand and on the other hand it has dogma and there is ritual and a lot of other things. I am very interested in the spiritual part of man and woman. I wonder what are we doing here and where are we going afterwards and where did we come from? These are obviously the main questions for humankind so in that sense I'm interested. This is part of the film but you can just feel it underneath. Some people do not feel it because it's not stated. On the other hand what I also care about, which is stated, is ritual. That's a sociological issue. That is for me a more superficial part of the film but it's a part that more people talk about because it's stated. That is the means of washing our consciences when we do something bad. Every culture has its own means of repentance and cleaning up. Some people dance, some take drugs, some repent in their prayers, Mexicans have had very open rituals like pilgrimages since pre-Hispanic times. Some people call Battle in Heaven a very catholic film but it's not. It's just that ritual has been monopolised by the colony, which was a catholic colony, so traditional rituals turned into catholic rituals. The thing is ritual itself, it doesn't matter which ritual.
So how important is Mexico to your films?
Mexico is very important but only because the films are set in Mexico . I am not a 'Mexicanist' if you like. If I had to emigrate to England then I would make films in England I think. I would be interested in the same things but then England would be very important because I would try to be very loyal to the context. I just think that if I do a film about a priest in the Yorkshire Dales then suddenly the whole thing would be very English. The context would be very important because it determines the spiritual part of the priest although that's a human and absolutely universal part. Everything deeply universal has to be necessarily very particular otherwise it's just a cartoon.
Do you feel that you have a guiding aesthetic and if so, do you worry about it becoming stale in the future?
The driving force is that I think the most powerful way to create a film is to see it in your head because there are no limits. When I see them in my head I am already taking into account physical limits. I see them as cinema. So I don't get lost. Regarding the future, I don't know. I don't want to manage a career you know? So I don't think about that. I'm so conscious that I could die tomorrow that I will probably only make two films so why bother thinking about what will happen on my seventh film? So now I just think about my third and I want to do it as best as I can. If I'd made Battle in Heaven before Japon then Battle in Heaven would be like Battle in Heaven and Japon would be like Japon except that Battle in Heaven would probably be a little worse because I knew the tools less. I'm not managing a career, I'm just trying to do them one by one as best as I can.
You've achieved a certain amount of notoriety with your first two films and while this may not affect the way you approach your third film it may affect the way that it is received. How do you feel about this?
I wish the film was less controversial but yesterday I was reading how L'Avventura was booed at Cannes but today Antonioni is a classic whatever people may say. In my opinion he's the greatest filmmaker. I think that if some people like the film very much then that is because there is something there and if some people don't like it at all then maybe they just don't see it. It's just a logical thing. It's not that I'm saying that they're stupid. It's just that if some people see it then that's because it's there. I remember I've had teachers in the worst of subjects that said 'I know that you don't care about this subject but if ever one of you is a great chemist, one of you in my whole life, then I will be proud of what I have done.' I thought that this guy was full of crap but now I feel it. If you can really touch one single person - but really touch them - then that is the greatest pleasure.
Do you feel a sense of the sublime in everyday life?
I do feel it. Not everyday but in everyday life. Everything is touched with absolute grace and disgrace. So it all depends upon how you look at it. It's not a question of method, like reading a self-help book and then suddenly everything is great, no. It's very organic. Sometimes it's there and it comes to you. It's very obvious. Some people kill themselves and some people live in ecstasy and the world is exactly the same.


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