“Barton Fink” quotes
(1991)
Title Barton Fink
Year 1991
Directors Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Genre Drama, Comedy
Year 1991
Directors Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Genre Drama, Comedy
Plot – Barton Fink is a young playwright of New York. He's very successful in Broadway and decides to move to Hollywood to work for Jack Lipnick, so he rents a room in a hotel. When he's trying to write, his neighbor Charlie Meadows enters his room repeatedly and to find inspiration Barton asks advice to W.P. Mayhew, a well-known writer. As he's drunk, Barton asks help to Audrey, his secretary, and they spend the night together but the next morning he finds the girl murdered. Charlie believes Barton is innocent and helps him to hide the body, while Meadows fixes everything before disappearing. Two detectives tell Barton that Charlie is crazy and has killed many people yet. When Barton is alone again, he has the inspiration for a screenplay but his producer rejects it. Barton comes back to the hotel where the cops want to arrest him, but Charlie arrives and frees him, then he reveals his friend the truth.
All actors – John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney, Tony Shalhoub, Jon Polito, Steve Buscemi, David Warrilow, Richard Portnow, Christopher Murney, I.M. Hobson
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“I don't like to discuss works in progress. If I let the words tumble out prematurely, it changes it, and I may never get it back.”
“You think I made your life hell? Take a look around this dump. You're just a tourist with a typewriter, Barton. I live here.”
“The doctor, what's he gonna tell me? Can't trade my head in for a new one.”
“Ladies do ask for attention. In my experience, they pretend to give it, but it's generally a smokescreen for demanding it back with interest.”
“I've always found that writing comes from a great inner pain.”
“Listen to me belly aching, like my problems add up to a hill of beans.”
“I gotta tell you, the life of the mind... There's no roadmap for that territory... And exploring it can be painful.”
“Sometimes it gets so hot I want to crawl right out of my skin.”
“What a day. Felt like I couldn't sell ice water in the Sahara.”
“Empathy requires understanding.”
“I pay my baby love and she pays me back with pity.”
“It's the carrot that wags the dog.”
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