“Henry Fool” quotes
(1997)
Title Henry Fool
Year 1997
Director Hal Hartley
Genre Drama, Comedy
Year 1997
Director Hal Hartley
Genre Drama, Comedy
Plot – Simon is a humble and honest man who works as a garbage collector and has to deal with many problems, including his mother’s depression. He is used to observe the world and its weird people from the outside, but his life is upset when he meets an anarchic intellectual called Henry, who encourages him to become a writer.
All actors – Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey, Maria Porter, James Saito, Kevin Corrigan, Liam Aiken, Miho Nikaido, Gene Ruffini, Nicholas Hope, Diana Ruppe, Veanne Cox
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“Only someone who really cares doubts.”
“I can't work for a living. My genius will be wasted trying to make ends meet. This is how great men topple.”
“You can't put a fence around a man's soul. We think and feel where and when we think and feel. We are servants of our muse and we toil where she commands.”
“The world is full of shit indeed.”
“You can't argue about taste.”
“Opportunity will move out of the way to let a man pass it by.”
“An honest man is always in trouble.”
“Is that such a priority? Is that some sort of measure of a man's worth? To drag what's best in him out into the street so every average slob with some pretense to taste can poke it with a stick?”
“Follow your own genius to where it leads without regard for the apparent needs of the world at large, which, in fact, has no needs as such, but, rather, moments of exhaustion in which it is incapable of prejudice. We can only hope to collide with these moments of unselfconsciousness. This divine fatigue.”
“A prophet is seldom heeded in his own land.”
“We know we have fallen, for we know who we are.”
“The greats all say the same thing: little. And what little there is to be said is immense.”
There's three kinds of "there". There's "there", t-h-e-r-e: "There are the donuts". Then there's "their", t-h-e-i-r, which is the possessive: "It is their donut". Then finally, there's "they're", t-h-e-y-apostrophe-r-e. A contraction meaning: "They're... they're the donut people". Got it?
“I don't discriminate between different ways of knowing.”
“- Henry Fool: Your instincts are profound. But the whole thing needs to be given a more cohesive shape. It can be expanded, followed through, unified. Do you see what I'm getting at? Are you willing to commit yourself to this? To really work on it? To give it its due in the face of adversity and discouragement? To rise to the challenge you...” (continue)(continue reading)
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