Sexe, mensonges & vidéo (1989)
Andie MacDowell: Ann
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Quotes
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Graham : You're right, I've got a lot of problems... But they belong to me.
Ann : You think they're yours, but they're not. Everybody that walks in that door becomes part of your problem. Anybody that comes in contact with you. I didn't want to be part of your problem, but I am. I'm leaving my husband, and maybe I would have anyway, but the fact is, is, I'm doing it now, and part of it's because of you. You've had an effect on my life.
Graham : This isn't supposed to happen. I've spent nine years structuring my life so this didn't happen.
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Ann : So let me see, you said, um, you said that I should never take advice from someone that I haven't had sex with, right... right?
Graham : Basically.
Ann : Right. And, uh, *we* haven't had sex...
[giggle]
Ann : right?
Graham : So...
Ann : So, I, I, I guess from your own advice, I shouldn't take your advice.
Graham : I wouldn't.
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John Mullany : I'm sorry?
Graham : No, it's just, I, you know, I just think - right now I have one key and everything I own is in the car, and I just... I like that, you know? I mean, I just, if I get an apartment, that two keys, if I... get a job, you know, I might have to open or close, that's more keys, you know, buy some stuff, I'm afraid it's gonna get ripped off, or something, and I get more keys, and I just, I, you know, I just like having the one key, it's clean.
Ann : You're not gonna worry in losing them, I always lose my keys, I hate that.
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Ann : My life is shit. It's just shit. Nothing's what I thought it was. John's a bastard. Let's make a videotape.
Graham : No, I... ahem... I don't think that's a good idea.
Ann : Why not?
Graham : Because I don't think it's a choice that you'd make in a normal frame of mind.
Ann : And what would you know about a normal frame of mind?
Graham : That's a good question.
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Ann : I think that um... I think that sex is overrated. I think that people place far too much importance on it, and I think that stuff about women wantin' it just as bad as men is crap. I mean I think that women want it, I just don't think that they want it for the same reason that men think they do.
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Ann : I want to know why you are the way you are!
Graham : And I'm telling you it's not any one thing that I can point to and say "That's why!" It doesn't work that way with people who have problems, Ann, it's not that neat, it's not hat tidy! It's not a series of little boxes that you can line up and count. Things just don't happen that way.
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[first lines]
Ann : Garbage. All I've been thinking about all week is garbage. I mean, I just can't stop thinking about it.
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Ann : Anyway, being happy isn't all that great. I mean, the last time I was really happy... I got so fat. I must have put on 25 pounds. I thought John was gonna have a stroke.
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Ann : It makes me angry because I can't justify being angry.
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Ann : Did he touch you?
Cynthia : No.
Ann : Did you touch him?
Cynthia : No.
Ann : Did anybody touch anybody?
Cynthia : Well... yes.
Ann : Don't tell me... don't tell me... don't tell me. You didn't!
Cynthia : I did.
Ann : You didn't!
Cynthia : I did.
Ann : You didn't!
Cynthia : I did!
Ann : God, Cynthia! You're in trouble.
Cynthia : Listen to you. You sound like Mama.
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Ann : So, all these are... are interviews, huh?
Graham : Uh, yes.
Ann : Can we watch one?
Graham : No, I'd - uh, no.
Ann : Why not?
Graham : Well, I... promised each of the subjects that no one would see the videotapes except for me.
Ann : What are the interviews about?
Graham : The interviews are about sex.
Ann : Sex? What about sex?
Graham : Everything about sex.
Ann : Like what?
Graham : What they've done. What they do. What they want to do; but, are afraid to ask for. What they wouldn't do even if asked.
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[John said he wasn't fucking Cynthia]
Ann : You never used to say the word "fucking."
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Barfly : This is too much. I'm wearing red, you're wearing red. That's quite a coincidence...
Ann : Look, I'm married.
Barfly : Really? Are you very married?
Ann : Married enough
Barfly : Oh. Oh. I see. Well, that shouldn't stop us...
Ann : I'm just here to see my sister. OK?
Barfly : Oh, really? Who's your sister?... Is she married?
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Graham : I'm impotent.
Ann : You're what?
Graham : Impotent.
Ann : You are?
Graham : Yeah, well, I can't - I can't get an erection - in the presence of another person. So, for all practical purposes, I'm impotent.
Ann : Does that bother you?
Graham : No.
Ann : Does it make you feel - self-conscious?
Graham : Um, not usually. No, yeah. Yeah, I'm self-conscious. Um, I'm not in the same way you are.
Ann : Me? Me, you think I'm self-conscious?
Graham : Well, I've been watching you. You know, I've been watching you. I've watched you eat, you know, I've watched you speak, I've watched you move, and I - I see somebody who is extremely aware of people looking at.
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John Mullany : Isn't therapy helping at all?
Ann : Oh, John, I don't know. I just feel so stupid sitting there talking about my little problems when I know those poor children are starving.
John Mullany : Well, quitting your therapy's not gonna - not gonna feed the children in Ethiopia.
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Ann : I always lose my keys. I hate that.
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Ann : You can't possibly trust him. He's perverted.
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Ann : That's beautiful... That's really beautiful.
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John Mullany : Ann, answer me. Answer me, god dammit. Did he?
Ann : Yes.
[Prepares to slap Ann but backs off]
John Mullany : That backstabbing son of a bitch! Oh, Mr. Honesty, huh!
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Ann : I'm sure he probably wishes that I would initiate things once in awhile - and I would except for - it just never occurs to me, And the few times I have felt like, I was by myself.
Therapist : Did you do anything?
Ann : What do you mean?
Therapist : Did you masturbate?
Ann : Oh!
[laughs]
Ann : Oh, oh. God, no! No. Uh-uh.
Therapist : I take it from your response that you never masturbate?
Ann : Well, I tried once. It just seemed so stupid!
[laughs]
Ann : I don't know, it just seemed like a dumb thing to do and, God, you know, and then I started worrying that my dead grandfather was maybe watching me, you know, and oh - oh, it just seemed is stupid.
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Ann : You don't believe in therapy?
Graham : No, I - I, you know, I - I believe in it for some people. I - I don't know, it was silly for me. I was confused going in. So, I just - I formed my own theory that - you should never take advice from someone that doesn't know you intimately.
Ann : Oh, but, I'm - I know my therapist intimately.
Graham : Oh, you've had sex with your therapist.
Ann : No! No. No.
Graham : Oh, I'm sorry. That's what I meant.
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Ann : Did he ask you to take your clothes off?
Cynthia : Did he ask me to take my clothes off? No, he didn't.
Ann : Did you take your clothes off?
Cynthia : Yes, I did.
Ann : Cynthia!
Cynthia : What?
Ann : Why did you do that?
Cynthia : Because I wanted to.
Ann : But why did you want to?
Cynthia : Because I wanted him to see me.
Ann : You're crazy - he can bounce it off some satellite. Some horny old men in South America could be watching it.
Cynthia : Ann, he wouldn't do that!
Ann : You don't know that for sure.
Cynthia : Well, it's too late now, isn't it?
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Ann : He's kind of arty but okay,
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Ann : What are these?
Graham : Those are videotapes.
Ann : I can see that. Of what?
Graham : It's a - personal project I've been working on.
Ann : What kind of personal project?
Graham : What?
Ann : What kind of personal project.
Graham : A personal project like anyone else's personal project. Mine's just a little more personal, I guess.
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John Mullany : Are you comfortable there?
Ann : Yeah, I'm comfortable.
John Mullany : Okay, I'm recording. Tell me your name.
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Ann : That's how Cynthia thinks. I hate it when I have feelings that she has. It bothers me when I think about men; because, I know that's the way she thinks.
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Ann : I've never really been that much into sex. I mean, I like it and everything; but, you know, I just don't think it's such a big deal and, oh, I wouldn't miss it, you know, kind of thing. But, well lately I've just been kinda curious about how things have slacked off.