Rocket Science (2007)
Nicholas D'Agosto: Ben Wekselbaum
Quotes
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Ben Wekselbaum : The fights you fight today are the fights you fight until you die.
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Ben Wekselbaum : An actual cello?
Hal Hefner : Well, it took a bunch of throws but, but ah, you know, I'm good for a bunch.
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Ben Wekselbaum : It's all so pointless. That's the realization I came to at States last year. Life is nothing but repetition, the same thing over and over. Somebody might give you a trophy and that's supposed to mean you're making progress but there's no such thing. The fights you fight today are the fights you fight untill you die.
Hal Hefner : Yeah, be that as it may.
Ben Wekselbaum : Sure, be that as it may...
Hal Hefner : Wait! It is not some college application bullshit that is, that is like the driving force here or any bullshit.
Ben Wekselbaum : I'm sure.
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Hal Hefner : And all it got me was... was a cello through her wi... window.
Ben Wekselbaum : You threw a cello? Through her window?
Hal Hefner : Yeah.
Ben Wekselbaum : How big was it?
Hal Hefner : I... I think it was sta... standard sym... symphony size.
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Ben Wekselbaum : Man, it's a blessing to be squarely and dearly out of the god damn suburbs.
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Hal Hefner : The big city is, uh, is, is Trenton?
Ben Wekselbaum : That's right
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Hal Hefner : No, ah, do you wanna know what it is?
Ben Wekselbaum : Yeah, "What it is, is... "?
Hal Hefner : What it. What it is, is, ah. It's, ah... is, ah, is. No. What, what it is, is.
[shouting]
Hal Hefner : It's spirit crushing, I said!