Funky Midnight in Paris

• Gil: Gil Pender.
• Ernest Hemingway: Hemingway.
• Gil: Hemingway?
• Ernest Hemingway: You liked my book?
• Gil: Liked? I loved all of your work.
• Ernest Hemingway: Yes. It was a good book because it was an honest book, and that's what war does to men. And there's nothing fine and noble about dying in the mud unless you die gracefully. And then it's not only noble but brave.
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• Gil: What is it with this city? I need to write a letter to the Chamber of Commerce.
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• Ernest Hemingway: No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
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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 ones living in - its a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present.
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• Helen: We saw a wonderfully funny American film last night.
• Inez: Who was in it?
• Helen: Oh, I don't know. I forget the name.
• Gil: Wonderful but forgettable. It sounds like a film I've seen. I probably wrote it.
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• Luis Buñuel: A man in love with a woman from a different era. I see a photograph!
• Man Ray: I see a film!
• Gil: I see insurmountable problem!
• Salvador Dalí: I see rhinoceros!