"[Reading]. A revolution isn't a gala dinner. It cannot be created like a book, a drawing or a tapestry. It cannot unfold with such elegance, tranquility and delicacy. Or such sweetness, affability. Courtesy, restraint and generosity. A revolution is an uprising, a violent act by which one class overthrows another."

"I could hear my heart pounding. I don't know if it was because I'd just been chased by the police or because I was already in love with my new friends."

"I think you prefer when the word "together" means not "a million," but just two."

"As we walked, we talked and talked and talked about politics, about movies, and about why the French could never come close to producing a good rock band."

"I don't believe in God, but if I did, he would be a black, left-handed guitarist."

"I was one of the insatiables. The ones you'd always find sitting closest to the screen. Why do we sit so close? Maybe it was because we wanted to receive the images first. When they were still new, still fresh. Before they cleared the hurdles of the rows behind us. Before they'd been relayed back from row to row, spectator to spectator; until worn out, secondhand, the size of a postage stamp, it returned to the projectionist's cabin. Maybe, too, the screen was really a screen. It screened us... from the world."

"The first time I saw a movie at the cinématèque française I thought, "Only the French... only the French would house a cinema inside a palace.""

"There's no such thing as love. There are only proofs of love."

"My parents fucked once in their lives. That's why we're twins, they didn't want to make it twice."

"Other people's parents are always nicer than our own, and yet for some reason, our grandparents are always nicer than other people's."

"I entered this world on the Champs-Elysees, 1959. La trottoir du Champs Elysees. And do you know what my very first words were? New York Herald Tribune! New York Herald Tribune!"

"David Harris - Cochise"

"Paul Greco - Sully, the Orphans leader"

"Edward Sewer - Masai"

"John Snyder - Gas Station Man"

"Mercedes Ruehl - Policewoman"

"Ginny Ortiz - Candy Store Girl"