Mr. Nobody (2009)

Daniel Mays: Young Journalist

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Quotes 

• Young journalist : You can't be dead and still here. You can't not exist. Is there life after death?

  Nemo Nobody aged 118 : [hearty laugh]  "After death." How can you be so sure you even exist?

  [waves him closer] 

  Nemo Nobody aged 118 : You don't exist. Neither do I. We only live in the imagination of a 9 year old child. We are imagined by 9 year old child, faced with an impossible choice.

• Young journalist : Everything you say is contradictory. You can't have been in one place and another at the same time. Of all those lives, which one is the right one?

  Nemo Nobody aged 118 : Each of these lives is the right one! Every path is the right path. Everything could have been anything else and it would have just as much meaning.

• Nemo Nobody aged 118 : I've got nothing to say to you. I'm Mr. Nobody, a man who doesn't exist.

  Young journalist : Do you remember what the world was like before telemerization? Quasi-immortality? What was it like when humans were mortals?

  Nemo Nobody aged 118 : There were cars that polluted. We smoked cigarettes. We ate meat. We did everything we can't do in this dump and it was wonderful! Most of the time nothing happened... like a French movie.

  Young journalist : And, um, sexually? Before sex became obsolete.

  Nemo Nobody aged 118 : Ha, ha! We screwed! Everybody was always screwing. We fell in love... we fell in love.

• Nemo Nobody aged 118 : Daniel Jones...

  Young journalist : Is that your name? Daniel Jones?

  Nemo Nobody aged 118 : Of course not!

• Young journalist : Did Elise die or didn't she? I don't get it. You can't have had children and not have them.

• Young journalist : I'm sorry, I don't understand. Did you stay with your father or go with your mother?