'Daliland' sneak peek: 'What's your experience?'

Watch an exclusive clip featuring Sir Ben Kingsley as Salvador Dali.

Video transcript

- How long have you been at the [INAUDIBLE]?

- Just a few months.

- And what's your experience?

- None, really. I was at art school. I dropped out.

- Why?

[DISTANT MUFFLED MUSIC]

- Realized I'm not an artist. I just love art.

- Well, someone has to. Well, James, welcome to Daliland.

STEVE HARLEY& COCKNEY REBEL: (SINGING) --so many lies?

[STEVE HARLEY & COCKNEY REBEL, "MAKE ME SMILE"] Come up and see me. Make me smile. Or do what you want, running wild.

- [INAUDIBLE]

STEVE HARLEY& COCKNEY REBEL: (SINGING) All gone and run away.

[CHATTER & LAUGHTER]

- Wait here.

- Well, Dali, we all know you're a genius. Are you comparing yourself to God?

- No, no, I do not compare myself to God. Dali is almost God.

- Almost?

- Not quite. If Dali was God, there would be no Dali. That would be a tragedy.

- [LAUGHS]

- At least when you die, you get to see if God looks like you. [LAUGHS]

- Death, [INHALES] it frightens me most. And this is the basis of my inspiration, my creativity. Every moment, death wants to catch me. And every 5:00 minute, there's no catch me. I enjoy it tremendous. I take some Vichy water. You bring me some tea, a little bread or something, everything becoming one tremendous pleasure. Because death surround me. And because death is so close, it's possible make erotic every single piece of my life. You see? I see. But you see.