“I know you like me. I know it. For the last year or two, you’ve been pretending like you hate me. I love you very much. I love you as much as I love anybody, as much as I love myself. And in a few years when I haven’t been around to be on your tail about something or irritating you, you could… remember that time that I bought you the baseball glove when you thought we were too broke. You know? Or when I read you those stories? Or when I let you goof off instead of mowing the lawn? Lots of things like that. And you’re gonna realize that you love me. And maybe you’re gonna feel badly, because you never told me. But don’t – I know that you love me. So don’t ever do that to yourself, all right?”
– Emma Horton (Debra Winger), Terms of Endearment (1984), screenplay by James L. Brooks, based on the novel by Larry McMurtry
James L. Brooks rocks! Would have LOVED to sit and listen to him talk about how he writes and what motivates him.
A few years ago, when Shane Black, hosted a post Screenwriting Expo event at a viewing of “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” Shane Black said James L. Brooks was his mentor. YES, Hollywood is a small town!
- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA
- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA
Possibly one of the most struggling and intimate scenes in movie history.
It — nails your troath.
M.