Being Flynn (2012)

Robert De Niro: Jonathan Flynn

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• Jonathan Flynn : [to Nick]  Destiny has brought us together for one fleeting moment. Let's not spit in its eye.

• [first lines] 

  Jonathan Flynn : America has produced only three classic writers - Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger and me. I'm Jonathan Flynn. Everything I write is a masterpiece. And soon, very soon, I shall be known.

• Jonathan Flynn : There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. The only important thing, though, is to simply do the work.

• Jonathan Flynn : So that's the story you tell of why your mother killed herself.

  Nick Flynn : I haven't told it to anyone.

  Jonathan Flynn : You tell it to yourself. Those are the best stories.

• [last lines] 

  Jonathan Flynn : All right Nicholas, you can have it. I bequeath it to you. You have the last word.

• Jonathan Flynn : Out of curiosity, why have you not ever asked me to stay with you before?

  Nick Flynn : I thought if you try and save a drowning man you might go down, too.

• Jonathan Flynn : [narrating]  Perhaps I'll start a new book, "Memoirs of a Moron".

• Jonathan Flynn : I'm doing the same thing here as you are, gathering material.

  Nick Flynn : No, I'm not gathering material. This is my life.

  Jonathan Flynn : Life is gathering material.