Hello I Am David! Page #3

[Scott] Do I give them to

you or you just--

Well, they just more or less said,

"Yes, go ahead."

They said... They more or less...

But you go, you took

them off the trunk, didn't you?

Well, there's a special room there

with lots of nice things in it.

-Oh...

-Oh, there's a room?

It's all right. They didn't say anything.

They just...

They might not know.

-They could see...

-[Scott] All right.

[Scott] David can be an exhausting

person to live with at times,

and he can also be exhilarating

and joyous and the easiest person

in the world to live with.

One day Gillian rang me and

said she wasn't feeling well,

she was leaving for Vienna the next day

with David for a week,

he had some concerts.

Could I go the next day

on the plane with David?

Which I did...

And... because they'd booked a...

a double room in the...

hotel in Vienna, and there

were no other rooms available,

I slept on the couch and...

so we were a very close proximity for...

for a week, he was the most

gorgeous, considerate, sensitive

person, you could ever...

bunk up with, his only flaw

was that he'd eat an apple,

two or three hours

after I'd gone to sleep.

Standing next to my head,

while patting my head, and,

a munching apple is a very good

alarm clock, and I would wake up,

and... long discussions with him each day,

and promises that he

would not do it again, of course,

had no effect.

Amongst all the family and friends,

I was however the only one who

had difficulties with

David in the early days.

Um... I've-- less so now,

but I was a chronically shy person.

I'm very protective of personal space,

um, my own, and everybody else's.

And in the early days of going

out in public with David,

I found his hugging of people,

and talking to people, grabbing people,

very confronting, and I had...

conversations with Gillian about it.

Gillian said don't worry about it,

you just have to be true

to your own feelings and

I'm sure it'll work out and just relax.

There was a concert in...

Canberra where he played

"Pictures at an exhibition,"

um... Mussorgsky. And...

half way through, I just

started sobbing and I...

sobbed till the end and I just felt

that was the moment I understood

David for the first time.

And David reminds me, "I made you cry,

I made you cry," all the time...

of that day...

and then I really...

I just got David--

I just realized what

an unbelievably, sweet,

kind, generous, incredibly brilliant mind,

forgetting that he's a great pianist.

[Scott] He's just a gorgeous human being.

He's just impossibly wise, when he

wants to tell you something.

One day I was in a board meeting, and I

heard David's voice in my head saying...

"Things are not going the way I want.

Can you come and see me?"

I called my sister and we flew up

and just knocked on the hotel door without

telling Gillian or David

we were coming to see them.

And David opened the door

and just casually said, "Ah, you're here."

And...

I said, "How did you know?", and he

said "I don't need to use a phone."

Uh, he, it's that--

I know-- David talks to me all the time,

I can be just walking along the streets

and he starts nattering something to me.

I think it's an incredible

ability to communicate

emotion and feeling

and sensitivity and reassuring,

there's something very

calming in his touch.

[David] You've got to be happy, of course.

We want you to be happy, don't we?

"Glucklich, glucklich," my happy life,

you know, like "Sweetie Pie."

That's what it says in my...

It's my bible.

The bible, isn't it?

Not the Bible, because...

[voice trailing off]

[soft music playing]

[piano starts playing]

[David] David, David Helfgott. You know,

my name. Yes. Your name?

[Moussa] My name is Moussa.

-Moussa.

-Moussa, oh, that's a nice name.

-I'm a Turkish Kurd.

-Oh, wonderful. Best of all worlds.

The Kurds are in three

different countries.

Iran, Iraq...

-[Moussa] Syria.

-That's right. Three, that's right.

[car honking loudly]

How are you? Sorry.

Hello, I'm David. I play the piano.

How are you? Risky, risky.

Hello! Anyway, feel free to go on.

[Man in Turkish] Don't touch the driver!

- Danke.

-Don't touch the driver!

Yeah danke.

He's passing by, danke. Danke.

Yes, yes, yes.

-[in Turkish] Don't touch him.

-Thank you.

I live in Vienna, yeah, yeah, yeah...

Keep on smiling. Got to keep smiling.

Look happy. Did I behave well?

[Gillian] No, it was a bit silly.

[car honking]

But he's very nice. Yeah, yeah.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

-Enjoy.

-Oh come on David, that's... corny.

It's corny. Is that corny?

Where are the others, darling?

Hungary. Magyar.

[voice over PA system]

Oh there's the Turkish Airline.

Is there? Oh, you're right. Hello.

[muttering]

Can I say hello?

Hello, I'm David.

-Can I just look at the... Can I?

-Sure, sure.

Oh, you really know me? Well, well, well.

Just going to put this in...

Hello, darling.

This is really good, darling.

I just have to see if

I can find a way to...

She's very nice.

She gave me the tea. Wasn't that nice?

It was very nice of her.

Thank you, darling.

So kind. You've got to be nice.

They're very kind. It's a lot of money.

Green tea's good for you.

Bye bye. What's your name?

Bye bye, Dominic.

-[David] Hello.

-Say goodbye to them.

Bye, bye.

[attendant] My colleague

is missing a bottle of tea.

Oh... I'll pass it back to you.

Pass it back. We'll pass it back.

-Hello, hello. Have a good journey.

-[Gillian] David? David?

Have a good... Hold the door.

Hold the door.

-Give me the tea, they're asking for it.

-Sorry, darling.

[David] Wow, wow!

Oh this behavior is got to--

-The tea's for us.

-[Gillian] No, it isn't, David.

Pass-- no, it isn't.

-You're in big trouble.

-Have a good journey! Have a good journey!

I'm so sorry about that.

He's terrible, he does it everywhere.

[Gillian] That was terrible--

-Well, she said yes. But then she...

-[Gillian] She did not!

-Well, I thought...

-[Gillian] David.

What?

-Well, she more or less nodded.

-[Gillian] She-she, did not--

Look at this, you can get

a violin, darling. Look.

What do you think about that?

Would that cost a fortune?

Oh, a parcel might be better.

These are good ones!

[Gillian] David come on.

Can we get this little white Toblerone?

It's a special travel one.

Oh all right.

I'm David. What's your name?

Together? Yes, together.

[background music]

-What's your name?

-My name is Susanne.

Hello, Susanne.

Bye bye!

David come here.

-Hello. Have a good journey.

-Oh thank you very much.

-Where are you from?

-Oh, India.

Oh, India! How wonderful!

Calcutta? Calcutta?

[indistinct name]

Calcutta! It's in one of

the most populous nations on earth.

[traveler] Yeah.

-[David] Hello, hello. What's your name?

-[co-passenger] Hello.

-Anita.

-[David] Anita!

[Walter] You're not a singer,

that's obvious.

Hello.

So which is our piano?

[Walter speaking over the music]

-It's more logical, yes, yes.

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