Illusion (2004)

Ron Marasco: Stan

Quotes 

• Stan : Listen, I know it's a little startling, that's why I sat here for awhile while you were sleeping. I didn't want to scare you, then I figured, "How the heck could you be scared of a guy that's got a cup of coffee?"

• Stan : Can I ask you something? What are they putting in coffee nowadays? It's like a flavor, or something.

  Donal Baines : Donna, she likes hazelnut.

  Stan : Hazelnut? In coffee? Hm. Well, the first couple of sips it was good -

  Donal Baines : It gets worse.

  Stan : Yeah.

• Stan : When people live their lives, it's recorded. Now, most of it never quite makes it into the can, so to speak, but the deeper things, the significant things, burn an impression and it becomes an actual record.

  Donal Baines : What's it look like?

  Stan : Like a film negative, for the most part. Just like a movie.

• Donal Baines : [about teenage Christopher]  He's too sappy, too sentimental.

  Stan : Shh, shh, shh. Teenager.

• Stan : If we don't write our own lines, someone else ends up writing them for us.

• Stan : He's just into this, what do they call it? Not punk, but... oh, Goth.

  Donal Baines : What?

  Stan : Goth. Christopher's a Goth.

  Donal Baines : What's that?

  Stan : Like a beatnik, only more depressed.

• Stan : People end up in movies they never expected to be in.

• Stan : You know what else I've seen? Patterns. No matter what direction someone's life takes, no matter what sort of film they're in, people tend to follow the same storyline, same plot. And that means, sometimes, the film just has to end tragically.

• Stan : All that's ever left of a person is what's recorded on paper, or on film. A few lines, a few scenes. Then you're in the can. Deep down, everyone knows that all we are is a brief flicker on the screen in the dark, an illusion.