Youth (I) (2015)

Paul Dano: Jimmy Tree

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• Pale Teenager : When your son says, 'Why weren't you a father to me?' And you say, 'I didn't think I was up to it.' At that moment, I understood some really important.

  Jimmy Tree : What?

  Pale Teenager : That no one in the world feels up to it, so there is no reason to worry.

• Jimmy Tree : I have to choose, I have to choose what is really worth telling: horror or desire? And I choose desire. You, each one of you, you open my eyes, you made me see that I should not wasting my time on the senseless fear...

• Miss Universe : I appreciate the irony, but when it is drenched in poison, it is drained of its force and reveals something else.

  Jimmy Tree : What?

  Miss Universe : Frustration.

• Jimmy Tree : Tell me about Stravinsky.

  Fred Ballinger : Well, he once said intellectuals had no taste. And from that moment on, I did everything I could not to become an intellectual. And I succeeded.

• Jimmy Tree : I want to tell about your desire, my desire. So pure, so impossible, so immoral. But it doesn't matter because that's what makes us alive.

• Pale Teenager : I saw you in that film that you've played a father who never knew his son. And he meets him for the first time in a highway diner when his son is already 14 years.

  Jimmy Tree : Nobody saw that movie!

  Pale Teenager : There was that dialogue that I really liked. When your son says: "Why weren't you a father to me?"And you say: "I didn't think I was up to it."At that moment I understood something really important.

  Jimmy Tree : What?

  Pale Teenager : That no one in the world feels up to it. So there is no reason to worry. Bye...

• Miss Universe : I appreciate irony, but when it is drenched in poison, it is drained of its force and reveals something else...

  Jimmy Tree : [pregnant pause]  What?

  Miss Universe : Frustration!