The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst - Andrew Jarecki Interview (HBO) — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:01Durst was wanted for murder in Galveston
3. 0:03Texas was a suspect for murders in Los
4. 0:07Angeles Westchester County New York Bob
5. 0:11dur has been accused of many crimes over
6. 0:13many years and that's what makes him in
7. 0:16some ways the most unusual of all
8. 0:18suspects this isn't a one-time event
9. 0:21that people are associating with they're
10. 0:23saying this is a guy for whom murder is
11. 0:27an option
12. 0:33before we made the Jinx there was a
13. 0:36whole other film which was called all
14. 0:38good things and that was a narrative
15. 0:39feature film that my partner and I had
16. 0:42started writing a number of years before
17. 0:44because we were interested in Bob dur
18. 0:46story we were working to try to get an
19. 0:49accurate representation of what happened
20. 0:51we weren't just saying well let's make a
21. 0:52fictional Hollywood movie let's make it
22. 0:54up as we went along and I think that was
23. 0:56important because when Bob Durst saw
24. 0:58that movie it motivated him to reach out
25. 1:02to
26. 1:03me Mr Ji how are you good how are you we
27. 1:06arranged to have breakfast first I found
28. 1:09him very engaging I would say Charming
29. 1:12he's very funny yet you cannot be
30. 1:16unaffected by the feeling of shaking
31. 1:19Bob's hand and recognizing while that's
32. 1:22happening that this is a hand that he
33. 1:24used to dismember a person I did not
34. 1:27kill my best friend I did dismember
35. 1:31him for many many years he has been the
36. 1:35subject of tabloid journalism the guy
37. 1:38whose wife disappeared the guy whose
38. 1:40best friend was murdered the guy whose
39. 1:42neighbor in Galis was dismembered I'm
40. 1:44always interested in the story behind
41. 1:46the story trying to understand someone
42. 1:48like that uh people that other people
43. 1:50call Maniacs or serial killers I think
44. 1:53they start out as people and they have a
45. 1:56history and family and hopes and dreams
46. 1:59how does some
47. 2:00begin as a young boy with every
48. 2:04advantage and end up in a $300 a month
49. 2:07rooming house disguised as a mute
50. 2:10woman with his neighbor shot in the face
51. 2:14lying on the floor in his apartment
52. 2:17that's such an incredible transition
53. 2:19that's such a radical departure from
54. 2:21where he started that there was no way
55. 2:23to not want to take a deeper
56. 2:27look this whole time I've said nothing
57. 2:29nothing to nobody about
58. 2:33anything when I first asked him what he
59. 2:35hoped to get out of sitting down with me
60. 2:38he said I would like to have something
61. 2:40out there from me and there was no
62. 2:43moment when we were asked to tell a
63. 2:46certain kind of story Bob's got plenty
64. 2:48of money if he wanted to pay for a
65. 2:49documentary he could have done it he
66. 2:51said to me upfront there is no question
67. 2:54that you can ask me that I won't answer
68. 2:56there is no time when you're going to
69. 2:57say to me I want to ask you about this
70. 2:59and I'm I'm going to say don't go there
71. 3:02often when you're making a film you're
72. 3:03under a lot of time pressure to make it
73. 3:05happen quickly the Jinx was very
74. 3:07different because we were able to work
75. 3:09on this in in one way or another for
76. 3:11about eight years we knew that we were
77. 3:12going to have to spend a lot of time
78. 3:14trying to understand what had really
79. 3:15happened there were so many twists and
80. 3:17turns in this story there were so many
81. 3:20Alleyways you'd need to go down and so
82. 3:22we did the forensic work to get that
83. 3:24material now what the audience can see
84. 3:27in the series is the result of all those
85. 3:29years and what we tried to do is to give
86. 3:31the audience that experience that we had
87. 3:34to go back and look at these very
88. 3:36Complex events that took place over so
89. 3:38long and bring the audience with us and
90. 3:41give them a feeling of what that was
91. 3:42like for us to make these
92. 3:44discoveries it's such a deep dive into
93. 3:46his life when you keep looking there are
94. 3:49more layers and more layers and more
95. 3:51layers
96. 3:55[Music]