From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment, which you can also hear at KCRW.com.

My guest, artist director Julian Schnabel's, in his work uses found object as an artist, and in film, basically, takes real life and turns into art.

So it's kind of a found object in that way, too.

His films have included Basquia before Night Falls and his amazing new movie, the adaptation of the diving bell and the butterfly.

Julian, thanks so much for doing this.

It's my pleasure to be here.

Tell the audience what the movie's about

and how you found the book.

The movie is about consciousness.

This movie has done something to me.

And I guess every movie that I ever made

or whatever art I made did something to me,

but in this particular case, I mean, I remember Ronaldo Arenas from Before Nightfall saying, we learned something new every day, but we never put it into practice.

And I was thinking about some, you know, disgruntled moments this morning or in another moment.

And I looked around and I just thought, you know, disgruntled moments this morning or another moment. And I looked around and I just

thought, you know, I made a movie about a man who lived through a huge disaster. He had a cardiovascular,

cerebral vascular attack. He was 42 years old. He woke him in a hospital and he had locked in

syndrome. so he

couldn't do anything except blink his left eye. And for somebody who has claustrophobia like me,

that was the worst possible thing that could ever happen to anyone. But what I didn't really

understand until I went to the hospital because

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