Stella Days (2011)

Stephen Rea: Brendan McSweeney

Quotes 

• Brendan McSweeney : The bishop is a plain speaking man.

  Fr. Daniel Barry : I will tell him you said so.

• Brendan McSweeney : Have you given any thought to the effect these pictures will have on people?

  Fr. Daniel Barry : Oh, I have, Brendan. They will be a source of enlightenment and entertainment to young and old alike.

  Brendan McSweeney : Bishop Hegarty might not agree with all that.

  Fr. Daniel Barry : You shouldn't assume to know the bishop's mind.

• Brendan McSweeney : I have serious moral objections to this enterprise.

  Fr. Daniel Barry : Well, go to confession then.

  Brendan McSweeney : There are people in this town struggling to put bread on the table, and what are we offering them? A picture house!

  Fr. Daniel Barry : The soul is fed by many things, Brendan.

• Brendan McSweeney : You still want to go back to Rome?

  Fr. Daniel Barry : They made a twenty eight year old the head curator after I'd been promised that position. He was an Italian of course. I still have my pride.

  Brendan McSweeney : So you kicked up a bit of a fuss.

  Fr. Daniel Barry : OH! I did. And I ended up here.

  Brendan McSweeney : It could have been worse. You could have ended up in the Aran Islands.

• Fr. Daniel Barry : Saint Patrick would have had a hard time with you.

  Brendan McSweeney : Saint Patrick?

  Fr. Daniel Barry : Wasn't he an outsider?

• Fr. Daniel Barry : "Into the light of hope... The glorious future, that belongs to you, to me and to all of us."

  Brendan McSweeney : Saint Francis of Assissi.

  Fr. Daniel Barry : Charlie Chaplin. The Great Dictator.