Before Sunrise

Before Sunrise Vital Stats

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Release date 1995

Duration 105 min

Producer(s) Gregory Jacobs, Wolfgang Ramml, Gernot Schaffler...more

Director(s) Richard Linklater...more

Writer(s) Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan...more

Cast Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert...more

Genre Drama,

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Before Sunrise Quotes

 Jesse:
I know what you mean about wishing somebody wasn't there, though. It's just usually it's myself that I wish I could get away from. Seriously, think about this. I have never been anywhere that I haven't been. I've never had a kiss when I wasn't one of the kissers. Y'know, I've never, um, gone to the movies, when I wasn't there in the audience. I've never been out bowling, if I wasn't there, y'know making some stupid joke. I think that's why so many people hate themselves. Seriously, it's just they are sick to death of being around themselves.
Jesse:
Let's say that you and I were together all the time, then you'd start to hate a lot of my mannerisms. The way every time we would have people over, uh, I'd be insecure, and I'd get a little too drunk. Or, uh, the way I'd tell the same stupid pseudo-intellectual story again, and again. Y'see, I've heard all those stories. So of course I'm sick of myself. But being with you, uh, it's made me feel like I'm somebody else.
 

 Jesse:
This friend of mine had a kid, and it was a home birth, so he was there helping out and everything. And he said at that profound moment of birth, he was watching this child, experiencing life for the first time, I mean, trying to take its first breath... all he could think about was that he was looking at something that was gonna die someday. He just couldn't get it out of his head. And I think that's so true, I mean, all - everything is so finite. But don't you think that that's what, makes our time, at specific moments, so important?
Celine:
Yeah, I know. It's the same for us, tonight, though. After tomorrow morning, we're probably never going to see each other again, right?
Celine:
We, maybe we should try something different. I mean, it's no so bad if tonight is our only night, right? People always exchange phone numbers, addresses, they end up writing once, calling each other once or twice...
Jesse:
Right. Fizzles out. Yeah, I mean, I don't want that. I hate that.
Celine:
I hate that too, y'know.
Jesse:
Why do you think everybody thinks relationships are supposed to last forever anyway?
Celine:
Yeah, why. It's stupid.
 

 Celine:
Yeah.
Jesse:
OK, well this was my thought: 50,000 years ago, there are not even a million people on the planet. 10,000 years ago, there's, like, two million people on the planet. Now there's between five and six billion people on the planet, right? Now, if we all have our own, like, individual, unique soul, right, where do they all come from? You know, are modern souls only a fraction of the original souls? 'Cause if they are, that represents a 5,000 to 1 split of each soul in the last 50,000 years, which is, like, a blip in the Earth's time. You know, so at best we're like these tiny fractions of people, you know, walking... I mean, is that why we're so scattered? You know, is that why we're all so specialized?
Celine:
I don't know. Wait a minute, I'm not sure... I don't...
Jesse:
Yeah, hang on, hang on. It's a, it's a totally scattered thought. It... which is kind of why it makes sense.
 



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