Ethan Hawke credited as playing...
Jesse
- Jesse: You know, I think that book that I wrote, in a way, was like building something. So that I wouldn't forget the... details of the time that we spent together. You know, like just a reminder that... that once we really did meet! You know, that this was real! That this happened!
- Celine: Celine: I'm happy you're saying that, because... I mean, I always feel like a freak, because I'm never able to move on like... this! You know. People just have an affair, or even entire relationships... they break up and they forget! They move on like they would have changed brand of cereals! I feel I was never able to forget anyone I've been with. Because each person have... their own, specific qualities. You can never replace anyone. What is lost is lost. Each relationship, when it ends, really damages me. I never fully recover. That's why I'm very careful with getting involved, because... It hurts too much! Even getting laid! I actually don't do that... I will miss on the other person the most mundane things. Like I'm obsessed with little things. Maybe I'm crazy, but... when I was a little girl, my mom told me that I was always late to school. One day she followed me to see why. I was looking at chestnuts falling from the trees, rolling on the sidewalk, or... ants crossing the road, the way a leaf casts a shadow on a tree trunk... Little things. I think it's the same with people. I see in them little details, so specific to each of them, that move me, and that I miss, and... will always miss. You can never replace anyone, because everyone is made of such beautiful specific details. Like I remember the way, your beard has a bit of red in it. And how the sun was making it glow, that... that morning, right before you left. I remember that, and... I missed it! I'm really crazy, right?
- Jesse: In the months leading up to my wedding, I was thinking about you all the time. I mean, even on my way there; I'm in the car, a buddy of mine is driving me downtown and I'm staring out the window, and I think I see you, not far from the church, right? Folding up an umbrella and walking into a deli on the corner of 13th and Broadway. And I thought I was going crazy, but now I think it probably was you.
- Celine: I lived on 11th and Broadway.
- Jesse: You see?
- Jesse: Oh, God, why didn't we exchange phone numbers and stuff? Why didn't we do that?
- Celine: Because we were young and stupid.
- Jesse: Do you think we still are?
- Celine: I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.
- Jesse: And you can screw it up, you know, misconnect.
- Celine: Men go out with me, we break up and then they get married. And later they call me to thank me for teaching them what love is. That I tought them to care and respect women.
- Jesse: I think I'm one of those guys.
- Celine: I wanna kill them! Why didn't they ask me to marry them? I would've said no, but at least they could have asked.
- Jesse: You want to know why I wrote that stupid book?
- Celine: Why?
- Jesse: So that you might come to a reading in Paris and I could walk up to you and ask, "Where the fuck were you?"
- Celine: [laughing] No - you thought I'd be here today?
- Jesse: I'm serious. I think I wrote it, in a way, to try to find you.
- Celine: Okay, that's - I know that's not true, but that's sweet of you to say.
- Jesse: I think it is true.
- Jesse: Oh, God, why weren't you there, in Vienna?
- Celine: I told you why.
- Jesse: Well, I know why, I just - I wish you would have been. Our lives might have been so much different.
- Celine: You think so?
- Jesse: I actually do.
- Celine: Maybe not. Maybe, we would have hated each other eventually.
- Jesse: Oh what, like we hate each other now?
- Celine: You know, maybe we're - we're only good at brief encounters, walking around in European cities in warm climate.
- Jesse: Maybe what I'm saying is, is the world might be evolving the way a person evolves. Right? Like, I mean, me for example. Am I getting worse? Am I improving? I don't know. When I was younger, I was healthier, but I was, uh, whacked with insecurity, you know? Now I'm older and my problems are deeper, but I'm more equipped to handle them.
- [first lines]
- Journalist #1: Do you consider the book to be autobiographical?
- Jesse: Uh, well, I mean... isn't everything autobiographical?
- Jesse: So what kind of songs do you write? I didn't know you did that.
- Celine: What kind?
- Jesse: Yeah, sure.
- Celine: I don't know, just songs.
- Jesse: Like?
- Celine: Like, some are about, you know, people, uh, relationships. One's about my cat.
- Jesse: Sing one.
- Celine: No, I can't, I don't have a guitar.
- Jesse: Oh, co- come on. A cappella.
- Celine: No, no, no. I'm not singing a song without a guitar. You're nuts!
- Jesse: Why not? It's...
- Celine: No, okay. Not now. No.
- Jesse: One.
- Celine: No.
- Jesse: If not now, when? Wanna meet here in six months with a guitar? You know, I'll fly all the way over here, you may or may not make the metro...
- Celine: [laughing] Okay, that's funny.