Joaquin Phoenix talks about life without his brother River
— on living without river —
"I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor."
"This 911 call was sent in the radio and television. It was terrible. They photographed him in his coffin. And these hysterical girls who were at the funeral almost fell into the grave. Repulsive. It was a long time before I overcame this shock."
"I'm still...it's very difficult to talk about it because when you lose something, someone, it's such a great loss, you try and hold onto anything that you have, and
memories that you have, and what was so difficult and what scarred me for a long time was when those memories were robbed from me. I wasn't allowed to experience them on my own time. Other people took advantage of their access to me, and suddenly my memories were distorted and changed. So it's very difficult, it's hard for me to talk about it now. When you lose someone, you need to go through a really long period to try and understand what's happened and to feel that loss in your own way. It's more difficult if it's a public death because it's going to take you that much longer to try and understand what's
happened. So I dont think I can really share it with you."
"My brother's death has been spread out across the world. The press has been heartless.
It's entertainment to them."
"After River's death, I felt like I was in an altered state. It took me over a year to
get my life back."
"To me, it's a crime to sneak in and take a picture of someone dead in their...It's a
crime and if I ever found out who did that, I'd probably end up in prison. Because I'd
beat the living shit out of them."
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- on the National Enquirer photo of River in his casket -
"River and I would talk about getting old, being in our 50s together, how it'd probably
take us that long to get to work together. There was something gorgeous about us being
old together. River will be missed – period. I mean now, more than ever I wish I could
talk to him."
"If someone wants to write about me being in my brother's shadow, that's their
prerogative. I can't worry about it, I'm very proud of my brother."
I hope you value reading Joaquin's thoughts...
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