The Souvenir (2019)

Richard Ayoade: Patrick

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• [at a dinner party; Anthony has left the table] 

  Patrick : You don't seem druggy to me.

  Julie : [smiling]  No, I'm not, no, I'm not.

  Patrick : Interesting. So I'm trying to work out... where you two tessellate here.

  [Julie is wordless, confused] 

  Patrick : I'm not good with euphemism, so...

  Julie : Sorry, I don't understand.

  Patrick : OK, so,

  [gestures to Anthony's vacant seat] 

  Patrick : habitual heroin user,

  [gestures to Julie] 

  Patrick : trainee Rotarian... which is a good look, I mean it nicely. How, what, why, when... ?

  Julie : [quietly stunned]  Sorry, I don't...

  Patrick : You don't even dabble?

  Julie : No.

  Patrick : Okay. I mean, I don't, I feel it's very mainstream behavior. I've said to him, it's mainstream. I actually think, you know... I mean, it was fine in the '40s, but...

  [Julie is still speechless as Anthony returns] 

• Patrick : It's the ultimate form, because it's maximum cinema. It's movement, music, energy, color. Everything that film should be. And there's never been a good musical made in Britain, I don't think. I mean, there's been some Cliff Richard. You know, "Knees Up Mother Brown", whatever, but, you know, for a country that has the Stones, The Kinks, Small Faces, for there not to be a good musical here is just... It's almost impressive.

• Patrick : You have to listen to a lot of people who think they know about film. Telling you how to make a film, it's like telling someone how to breathe or how to think or... it's ridiculous. And there are no rules. I mean, you know the Tolstoy definition of art? Well, you just have a feeling, and by means of external signs you communicate it to someone else. That's it.