Midnight In Paris quotes
Director: Woody Allen
Stars: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates
1.
My real talent lies in drinking.
That's true.
2.
– I'm bored, he's bored, we're all bored.
– We are all bored.
3.
“Could we not discuss my personal life in public?”
4.
“Some people enter your life in a whirlwind and no matter how hard you try you can’t stop thinking about them, even after they leave…especially after they leave.”
5.
“The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
6.
Ernest Hemingway: If it's bad, I'll hate it because I hate bad writing, and if it's good, I'll be envious and hate all the more. You don't want the opinion of another writer.
7.
Man Ray: A man in love with a woman from a different era. I see a photograph!
Luis Buñuel: I see a film!
Gil: I see insurmountable problem!
Salvador Dalí: I see rhinoceros!
8.
Paul: Nostalgia is denial – denial of the painful present… the name for this denial is golden age thinking – the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one one's living in – it's a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present.
9.
Gertrude Stein: We all fear death and question our place in the universe. The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
10.
Ernest Hemingway: No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.