Midnight in Paris Quotes

Midnight in Paris is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . Midnight in Paris ended its run in 1970.

It features Letty Aronson; Stephen Tenenbaum, and Jaume Roures as producer, Stephane Wrembel in charge of musical score, and Darius Khondji as head of cinematography.

Midnight in Paris is recorded in English and originally aired in United States, and Spain. Each episode of Midnight in Paris is 94 minutes long. Midnight in Paris is distributed by Sony Pictures Classics.

The cast includes: Kathy Bates as Gertrude Stein, Tom Cordier as Man Ray, Adrien de Van as Luis Buñuel, Owen Wilson as Gil, Adrien Brody as Salvador Dalí, Corey Stoll as Ernest Hemingway, Michael Sheen as Paul, Marion Cotillard as Adriana, Mimi Kennedy as Helen, Rachel McAdams as Inez, Léa Seydoux as Gabrielle, and Kurt Fuller as John.

Midnight in Paris Quotes

Owen Wilson as Gil

• (Owen Wilson) "These people don't have any antibiotics."
• (Marion Cotillard) "What are you talking about?"
• (Owen Wilson) "Adriana, if you stay here though, and this becomes your present then pretty soon you'll start imagining another time was really your -- You know, was really the golden time. Yeah, that's what the present is. It's a little unsatisfying because life's a little unsatisfying."
• (Marion Cotillard) "That's the problem with writers. You are so full of words."

• (Owen Wilson) "I'm jealous and I'm trusting. It's cognitive dissonance. F. Scott Fitzgerald talked about it."

• (Owen Wilson) "Yes, but you're a surrealist. I'm a normal guy."

• (Owen Wilson) "What is it with this city? I need to write a letter to the Chamber of Commerce."

• (Owen Wilson) "He's a pseudo-intellectual. Just a little bit."
• (Rachel McAdams) "Ah, Gil, I hardly think he'd be lecturing at the Sorbonne if he's a pseudo-intellectual."

• (Owen Wilson) "500 francs for a Matisse? Yeah I think that sounds fair. You know, I wonder if actually I can pick up 6 or 7?"

• (Owen Wilson) "I'm a huge Mark Twain fan. I think you can make the case that all modern American literature comes from Huckleberry Finn."
• (Corey Stoll) "Do you box?"
• (Owen Wilson) "No. Well -- Not really, no."

• (Owen Wilson) "You're very kind, but I wouldn't call my babbling poetic. Although I was on a pretty good roll there."

• (Owen Wilson) "It's understated but elegant. That's what you always say."
• (Mimi Kennedy) "Cheap is cheap. That's what I always say."

• (Owen Wilson) "Thomas Stearns Eliot? T.S. Eliot? T.S. Eliot? Prufrock is like my mantra."

• (Owen Wilson) "She's right, I recently read a two-volume biography of Rodin, and Rose was the wife, Camille the mistress."

• (Owen Wilson) "That's what the present is. It's a little unsatisfying because life is unsatisfying."

• (Owen Wilson) "That was Djuna Barnes? No wonder she wanted to lead."

• (Owen Wilson) "Gil Pender."
• (Corey Stoll) "Hemingway."
• (Owen Wilson) "Hemingway?"
• (Corey Stoll) "You liked my book?"
• (Owen Wilson) "Liked? I loved all of your work."
• (Corey Stoll) "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."

• (Owen Wilson) "They are your friends and I have to admit I'm not quite as taken with them as you are."

• (Owen Wilson) "You can fool me, but you cannot fool Ernest Hemingway."

Marion Cotillard as Adriana

• (Marion Cotillard) "I'm from the '20s, and I'm telling you the golden age is la Belle Epoque."

• (Marion Cotillard) "That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me."

• (Marion Cotillard) "I can never decide whether Paris is more beautiful by day or by night."
• (Owen Wilson) "No, you can't, you couldn't pick one. I mean I can give you a checkmate argument for each side. You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can't. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights, I mean come on, there's nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe."

• (Marion Cotillard) "Let's go."
• (Corey Stoll) "One of these days I plan to steal you away from this genius"
• (Corey Stoll) "who's great -- But -- he's no Miro."

Kathy Bates as Gertrude Stein

• (Kathy Bates) "Hemingway did have one plot suggestion; he doesn't quite believe that the protagonist doesn't see that his fiancée is having an affair right before his eyes"

• (Kathy Bates) "The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."

• (Kathy Bates) "We all fear death and question our place in the universe. The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."

• (Kathy Bates) "You have a clear and lovely voice. Don't be such a defeatist."

Rachel McAdams as Inez

• (Rachel McAdams) "You're in love with a fantasy."
• (Owen Wilson) "I'm in love with you."

Kurt Fuller as John

• (Kurt Fuller) "Say hello to Trotsky."

Corey Stoll as Ernest Hemingway

• (Corey Stoll) "I believe that love that is true and real, creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving or not loving well, which is the same thing. And then the man who is brave and true looks death squarely in the face, like some rhino-hunters I know or Belmonte, who is truly brave -- It is because they make love with sufficient passion, to push death out of their minds -- until it returns, as it does, to all men -- and then you must make really good love again."

• (Corey Stoll) "I think a woman is equal to a man in courage. Have you ever shot a charging lion?"
• (Marion Cotillard) "Never."
• (Corey Stoll) "Would you like to know how that feels?"
• (Marion Cotillard) "I don't think so."
• (Corey Stoll) "You ever hunted?"
• (Marion Cotillard) "No."
• (Corey Stoll) "You?"
• (Owen Wilson) "Only for bargains."

• (Corey Stoll) "If you're a writer,"
• (Corey Stoll) "declare yourself the best writer. But your not, as long as I'm around, unless you want to put the gloves on and settle it."

• (Corey Stoll) "Picasso only thinks that women are to sleep with, or to paint."

• (Corey Stoll) "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."

• (Corey Stoll) "You'll never be a great writer if you fear dying, do you?"
• (Owen Wilson) "Yeah, I do. I would say it's my greatest fear."

Léa Seydoux as Gabrielle

• (Léa Seydoux) "By the way, my name is Gabrielle."
• (Owen Wilson) "I'm Gil, nice to meet you. It's a pretty name."

• (Léa Seydoux) "I don't mind getting wet."

Tom Cordier as Man Ray

• (Tom Cordier) "A man in love with a woman from a different era. I see a photograph."
• (Adrien de Van) "I see a film."
• (Owen Wilson) "I see insurmountable problem."
• (Adrien Brody) "I see rhinoceros."

Michael Sheen as Paul

• (Michael Sheen) "Sex and alcohol. Fuels the desire kills the performance, according to the Bard."

• (Michael Sheen) "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 one's living in; it's a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present."

Mimi Kennedy as Helen

• (Mimi Kennedy) "We saw a wonderfully funny American film last night."
• (Rachel McAdams) "Who was in it?"
• (Mimi Kennedy) "Oh, I don't know. I forget the name."
• (Owen Wilson) "Wonderful but forgettable. It sounds like a film I've seen. I probably wrote it."

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