Michael Sheen credited as playing...
Paul
- Paul: Nostalgia is denial - denial of the painful present.
- Inez: Oh, whoa! Gil is a complete romantic. I mean, he would be more than happy living in a complete state of perpetual denial.
- Carol: Really?
- Paul: And the name for this falacy is called: Golden Age Thinking.
- Inez: Ah! Touché.
- Paul: Yeah, the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one one's living in - it's a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present.
- Inez: Why don't you tell them about the lead character that you're working on right now?
- Carol: Yes! Oh, come on.
- Gil: I don't like to discuss my work.
- Inez: Well, dear, you don't have to tell them the whole plot, just the character.
- Gil: No, No, No.
- Inez: Okay. He works in a nostalgia shop.
- Carol: What's a-- What's a nostalgia shop?
- Paul: Oh, not one of those stores where they sell Shirley Temple dolls and old radios? And I never know who buys that stuff. Who'd want it?
- Carol: I don't know.
- Inez: Well, people who live in the past, people who think that their lives would be happier if they lived in an earlier time.
- Paul: And just which era would you have preferred to live in, Miniver Cheevy?
- Inez: Paris in the '20s, in the rain.
- Gil: Wouldn't have been bad.
- Inez: When the rain wasn't acid rain
- Paul: I see. And no global warming, no TV and suicide bombing, and nuclear weapons, drug cartels.
- Carol: Usual menu of cliched horror stories.
- Paul: In fact, if I'm not mistaken, in the Old French the word 'Versailles' means something like "terrain where the weeds have been pulled.