Box Office Bitch

Excuse me Miss, could you give us some change please? We need to buy ice cream. The doctor said we have asthma and we gotta eat ice cream right away.

“In Punch-Drunk Love, there’s a scene in which the main character, played by Sandler, smashes a series of windows in his sister’s house, the result of a dinner party gone wrong. Afterward, he pleads with his brother-in-law for help with…well, he’s not really sure. His brother-in-law asks what’s wrong, exactly. Egan responds: “I don’t know if there is anything wrong, because I don’t know how other people are.”

In an e-mail, I asked Anderson if he remembered writing that specific line in Punch-Drunk Love.

He replied that he did. “I was sitting at my desk,” he recalled, in that thunderstruck way of his. “It was one of those lines you’re real happy fell into your lap. It’s a good idea, well said, by a character who would say it.”

He went on: “When we’re isolated, it becomes very difficult to know how much of your pain is specific to you—how low or high your threshold is for feeling sad or melancholy or just plain blue compared to other people.”

Like Egan, Anderson wrote, “I bet loads of people walk around with stones in their shoes thinking My feet hurt without ever looking inside their shoe to see why.”

– Paul Thomas Anderson talking to Zach Baron

We’re all obscene. Everyone’s obscene. That’s the whole fucking point. We see it and we love each other anyway.

A Bigger Splash (2015)

You’re having too much fun, and it’s not supposed to be fun.

10 years later:

What a day. We fought against the day and we won. We won.

the master (2012)

if you leave me now, in the next life you will be my sworn enemy. and I will show you no mercy.