ENCHANTED [2007]

This Fairytale Princess is About to Meet a Real Prince Charming

 I've been dreaming of a true love's kiss,

and a prince I'm hoping comes with this.

That's what brings ever afterings so happy.

And that's the reason we need lips so much,

for lips are the only things that touch,

so to spend a life of andless bliss.

Just find who you love, through true love's kiss.

~Giselle

Sam: After a whole day of that, you still want to get engaged?

Robert: Those people got married on a crazy romantic whim.

It's not like that with Nancy and I.

Sam: Right, none of that crazy romantic stuff for you, huh?

Robert: We're rational.

We understand each other's strenghts and weaknesses.

Sam: Sounds like building a bridge.

Robert: True love's kiss?

Giselle: It's the most powerful thing in the world.

Robert: Right.

Just because she has on a funny dress, doesn't mean she's a princess.

She is a seriously confused woman who's fallen into our laps.

~Robert Phillip

Robert: You're gonna marry somebody after a day because you fell in love with him?
Giselle: Yes.

Robert: Most normal people get to know each other before they get married.
They date.
Giselle: Date?
Robert: Yeah, you know, date.
You go some place special, like a restaurant, or a movie, a museum.
Or you just hang out and you talk. 
Giselle: What do you talk about?
Robert: About each other. About yourself. About your interests. Your likes, your dislikes.
You talk. 
Giselle: You have such strange ideas about love. 
Robert: Maybe we should do what you would do.
You meet, have lunch, and get married. 
Giselle: Oh, you forgot about happily ever after. 
Robert: Forget 'happily ever after'. It doesn't exist. 
Giselle: Of course it does.
Robert: I hate to disagree, but marriage are a success if they manage not to end.
Forget about happiness.
Giselle: What about you and Nancy? 
You know that you will live happily ever after. 
Robert: I don't know if I'll make it through today, let alone a lifetime. 
That's what I'm trying to tell you. It's complicated.
 Giselle: But it doesn't have to be. Not if she knows.
Robert: Knows what? 
Giselle: How much you really love her.
Robert: Of course she does. 
We just don't talk about it every minute of the day, but she knows. 

 Giselle: This is a very nice place.
Robert: Yeah.
Giselle: And we're eating dinner.
Robert: Yeah. 
Giselle: This is a date. 

 Giselle: You were in love.
Robert: Yeah. That was the problem.
Giselle: How could that be a problem? 
Robert: Because love... the lovey-dovey version that you talk about? It's fantasy.
And one day, you have to wake up and you're in the real world.
Giselle: What made you wake up? 
Robert: Well, she left.
Giselle: I'm so sorry for you both.

 Robert, about Morgan: That's why I don't encourage the fairy tales.
I don't want to set her up to believe in this 'dreams come true' nonsense.
 Giselle: But dreams do come true.
And maybe something wonderful will happen.
Robert: Yeah, well, I forgot who I was talking to.

 Giselle: Edward is coming for me.
Robert: But what if he doesn't?
 Giselle: Why do you keep saying that?
Robert: Because I deal with this every day. 
If a relationship has issues at the beginning, it doesn't get any better.
Giselle: He is coming! 

 What a terrible accident that brought you to this terrible place
with so much sadness and so much pain.
To never be with the one you love.
Doomed to be with another for eternity.
~Queen Narissa

 

  Oh, my. This is a twist on our story. It's the brave little princess coming to the rescue.
[to Robert] I guess that makes you the damsel in distress, huh, handsome?
~Queen Narissa 

Giselle: Is this a habit of yours? Falling off of stuff?
Robert: Only when you're around to catch me.



*****

ELIZABETHTOWN [2005]

The Best Place To Find Yourself
  
 As somebody once said, there's a difference between a failure and a fiasco.
 A failure is simply the non-presence of success.
Any fool can accomplish failure.
But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
A fiasco is a folktale told to others that makes other people feel more alive
because it didn't happen to them.
~Drew Baylor

Mercury Worldwide Shoes, which is actually Phil,
contains some of America's finest artists' masterworks
seen only by people heading for very important meetings, a promotion, or otherwise.
"We are not just employees," as Phil once said. "We are denizens of greatness."
Phil says, " The world is full of those who achieve through negativity, or theft."
"We succeed through original thought."
A shoe is not just a shoe. It connects us to the earth.
The right shoe can transport us, make us believe we are capable of more.
~Drew Baylor

Success, not greatness, was the only god the entire world served.
~Drew Baylor

Claire: I'm just wondering if this whole thing is better on the phone.
You're so much better on the phone.
Maybe we should never face each other again.
Drew: I enjoyed this.

 Claire: We're the substitute people.
I've been the substitute person my whole life.
I'm not an Ellen. I never wanted to be an Ellen.
And I'm not a Cindy, either. Although Chucks love me.
Drew: I'm sure they do.
Claire: I like being alone too much.
I'm with a guy who's married to his academic career.
I rarely see him. And I'm the substitute person there.
I like it that way. It's a lot less pressure.

Drew: I'm not used to girls like you.
Claire: That's because I'm one of a kind.
Drew: You don't have to make a joke.
I like you without the jokes.
 

 

Drew: He forgot? No storm in Georgia, no trustees, no big ideas.What a fucking jerk.
Claire: He's not a jerk.
He's a brilliant man who gives himself permission to be preoccupied.
Drew: Come on.
There is nothing greater than deciding in your life that things maybe really are black and white!
And this guy Ben, who clearly takes you for granted,
who serially takes advantage of you, is bad!
And what I am saying is good, see what I mean?
You shouldn't be the substitute for anybody.
This guy should be right here, right now, doing this. [kiss her]
Claire: Maybe so.
Drew: He's lucky I'm not the right person for you. [kiss her again]

I will miss your lips and everything attached to them.
~Claire Colburn

Drew: 4 days ago, I lost a major American shoe company.
Frankly, you could round it off to one billion dollars!
And by tomorrow afternoon, everyone will know.
Something's gonna be published that pinpoints me as the most spectacular failure in the history of my profession which is all I know how to do.
And I've been here this whole time trying to be responsible and charming and live up to this success that doesn't exist.
All I really want is to not be here.
I'm sorry, I have a very dark appointment with destiny.
That's my secret. That's who I am.
Claire: That's it?
Drew: Yes, that's it.
Claire: I'm sorry.
I guess I thought a small part of you might be a small bit sad to see me go.
But I guess this is all mostly about a shoe.
Drew: Of course I'm sad about you.
But this is just a little bit bigger than you and me!
And by the way, I didn't say million. I said billion! A billion dollars! That's a lot of million!
 Claire: So, you failed.
Drew: No, you don't get it.
Claire: All right, you really failed. You failed, you failed, you failed, you failed, you failed...
You think I care about that?
I do understand.
You're an artist, man, your job is to break through barriers.
Not accept blame and bow and say, "Thank you, I'm a loser, I'll go away now, Phil's mean to me..." So what?
Drew: I don't cry.
Claire: You want to be really great?
Then have the courage to fail big and stick around.
Make them wonder why you're still smiling.
That's true greatness to me.
But, don't listen to me. I'm a Claire.
Drew: Well, thank you, Claire.
Claire: You're welcome.
Now would you quit trying to break up with me?
You're always trying to break up with me, and we're not even together.
Drew: We're not?
Claire: Of course not. We're the substitute people, remember?

You have 5 minutes to wallow in the delicious misery.
Enjoy it, embrace it, discard it... and proceed.
~Claire Colburn

No true fiasco ever began as a quest for mere adequacy.
A motto of the British Special Service Air Force is, 'Those who risk, win.'
A single green vine shoot is able to grow through cement.
The Pacific Nortwestern salmon beats itself bloody on its quest to travel hundreds of miles upstream against the current, with a single purpose.
Sex, of course.
But also... life.
~Drew Baylor


*****

SHALL WE DANCE [2004]

Step Out Of The Ordinary
 

The rumba is the vertical expression of a horizontal wish. 
You have to hold her, like the skin on her thigh is your reason for living. 
Let her go, like your heart's being ripped from your chest. 
Throw her back, like you're going to have your way with her right here on the dance floor. 
And then finish, like she's ruined you for life. 

[Paulina]

[Bobbie]: ...and stop looking at my ass. 

[John Clark]: I'll try. 

[Paulina]: What made you wanna dance? 

[John Clark]: You. 
Looking out that window, right there. 
You could see it from the train. 
Every night, I'd come home from work & I'd look for you, your face... 
you looked on the outside the way I was feeling on the inside. 

[Paulina]: I was watching you, too. 
From the window, I saw you practicing on the platform.  
That night I said all those thing to you, I didn't think I'd ever see you again. 
But you kept coming back. 

*****

STEPMOM [1998]

Be There For The Joy

Be There For The Tears

Be There For Each Other

[Ben Harrison]: Can you fall out of love with your kids?

[Luke Harrison]: No. That is impossible!  

[Ben Harrison]: No one loves you like I do.

[Jackie Harrison]: No. No one ever will. 

[Ben Harrison]: Mommy... 

[Jackie Harrison]: What, sweetie?

[Ben Harrison]: If you want me to hate her I will.

You didn't asked me if I wanted a new mother. 

You didn't even asked me if I liked her!

[Anna Harrison] 

[Luke Harrison]: Anna! You do NOT run out on your mother! 

[Anna Harrison]: No, that's your job.

[Anna Harrison]: I don't have to listen to you, you're not my mother! 

[Isabel]: THANK GOD FOR THAT! 

[Jackie Harrison]: Yep. Life's a tradeoff. 

It's finally legal to smoke dope, but you got to have cancer. 

[Isabel]: Are you dying? 

[Jackie Harrison]: Not today. 

[Jackie Harrison]: You know, Ben was born in two hours, went right to the breast, and camped there for 4 days. 

His blanket looked just like a cape, even the nurses thought so. 

He loves hearing that story about how he was born a magician.

[Isabel]: What about her?

[Jackie Harrison]: 28 hours. 

The doctors wanted to go in and get her, but I knew she'd come at her own time. 

You can never rush her. 

[Isabel]: I'll keep that in mind.

[Isabel]: You know, I never wanted to be a mom. 

Sharing it with you... that's one thing. 

It's another to be looking over my shoulder for the next twenty years, 
knowing someone else would have done it better... someone else would have done it right.

[Jackie Harrison]: What do you have that I don't?

[Isabel]: You're Mother Earth, incarnate. 

[Jackie Harrison]: You're... hip, and fresh. 

[Isabel]: You ride with Anna.

[Jackie Harrison]: You'll learn.

[Isabel]: You know every story, every wound, every memory. 

Their whole life's happiness is wrapped up in you... every single second. 

Don't you get it? 

Look down the road to her wedding. 

I'm in a room alone with her, fixing her veil, fluffing her dress, telling her no woman has ever looked so beautiful. 

And my fear is she'll be thinking, "I wish my mom was here." 

[Jackie Harrison]: And mine is... she won't.

*****

DEAD MAN WALKING [1995]

It's not faith, it's work. 

[Sister Helen Prejean]

Thank you for loving me. 

[Matthew Poncelet]

I just wanna say I think killin' is wrong, no matter who does it, whether it's me or y'all or your government.

[Matthew Poncelet]

[Sister Helen Prejean]: Show me some respect, Matthew. 

[Matthew Poncelet]: Why? 'Cause you're a nun?

[Sister Helen Prejean]: Because I'm a person. 

[Clyde Percy]: How can you stand next to him? 

[Sister Helen Prejean]: Mr. Percy, I'm just trying to follow the example of Jesus, who said that a person is not as bad as his worst deed. 

[Clyde Percy]: This is not a person. This is an animal. 

[Prison Guard]: Do you have any last words, Poncelet? 

[Matthew Poncelet]: Yes, I do. 

Mr. Delacroix, I don't wanna leave this world with any hate in my heart. 

I ask your forgiveness for what I done. 

It was a terrible thing I done, taking your son away from you. 

[Clyde Percy, softly to his wife]: How about us?

[Matthew Poncelet]: Mr. and Mrs. Percy, I hope my death gives you some relief.

A mother's arms are strong when her child is in danger. 

[Helen's Mother]

*****