Midnight in Paris (2011)
Michael Sheen: Paul
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Quotes
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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.
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Paul : Sex and alcohol. Fuels the desire kills the performance, according to the Bard.
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Inez : Why don't you tell them about the lead character that you're working on right now?
Carol : Yes! Oh, come on.
Gil : I don't like to discuss my work.
Inez : Well, dear, you don't have to tell them the whole plot, just the character.
Gil : No, No, No.
Inez : Okay. He works in a nostalgia shop.
Carol : What's a-- What's a nostalgia shop?
Paul : Oh, not one of those stores where they sell Shirley Temple dolls and old radios? And I never know who buys that stuff. Who'd want it?
Carol : I don't know.
Inez : Well, people who live in the past, people who think that their lives would be happier if they lived in an earlier time.
Paul : And just which era would you have preferred to live in, Miniver Cheevy?
Inez : Paris in the '20s, in the rain.
Gil : Wouldn't have been bad.
Inez : When the rain wasn't acid rain
Paul : I see. And no global warming, no TV and suicide bombing, and nuclear weapons, drug cartels.
Carol : Usual menu of cliched horror stories.
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Paul : In fact, if I'm not mistaken, in the Old French the word 'Versailles' means something like "terrain where the weeds have been pulled.