Alex in Wonderland (1970)

Meg Mazursky: Amy

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• Amy : Do you ever wonder if you're real?

  Alex Morrison : You mean if am me. If, uh, if what me is - is really what I am?

  Amy : Well, like sometimes when I get up in the morning and I look at my fingers, and I wonder who I am - you know and why. It's like a miracle to be on this earth.

  Alex Morrison : Do you think about dying?

  Amy : Sometimes, but, you know.

  Alex Morrison : What do you think?

  Amy : What's gonna happen and everything and - it might be better than, you know, living. Nobody knows.

  Alex Morrison : Do you think that you ever were something else?

  Amy : Sometimes.

  Alex Morrison : We're all alike. Each of us is a - we are like, each of us, each of us is like a God.

  Amy : We are?

  Alex Morrison : [laughs]  Eat your banana.

• Alex Morrison : What does it mean to you - when you see that? What - what do you feel when you see that, when you see two people, a man and woman, come together and kiss.

  Amy : It means they must like each other.

  Alex Morrison : They like each other - or they are attracted to each other? Or they feel something, a kind of energy in themselves - for each other. When, when the boy you like at school - when you, when you see him, what - what do you feel?

  Amy : Nothing. I don't know.

  Alex Morrison : Oh, you do. What do you feel?

  Amy : I don't know.

  Alex Morrison : Well, but, do you feel warm?

  Amy : I feel happy.

  Alex Morrison : And your eyes feel good?

  Amy : Yeah.

  Alex Morrison : Do you know what it feels like in your eyes?

  Amy : I don't know.

  Alex Morrison : It's important that you understand that. It is important that you feel - free about that, that loving is really a sensationally, marvelous, wonderful thing.

• Alex Morrison : I wanna do a movie about - I wanna do something important. I wanna do a movie about life, about...

  Amy : Do a movie about us.

  Alex Morrison : That's "8 1/2".

  Beth Morrison : I have to cook breakfast.

  Alex Morrison : You've absolutely no interest in anything that I am trying to do!

• Amy : What's 8 1/2?

  Alex Morrison : "8 1/2"? "8 1/2", is a movie - by Fellini. It's about himself. About a movie director. A lot of flashbacks, about a mother and father. His childhood.

  Amy : Doesn't sound like such a great movie.

  Alex Morrison : No, it's the way he did it.

  Amy : Why don't you do a picture for kids?