While We're Young (2014)

Charles Grodin: Leslie Breitbart

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• Leslie Breitbart : How's my daughter?

  Josh : How's she seem to you?

  Leslie Breitbart : Seems well.

  Josh : So why are you asking me?

• Leslie Breitbart : You know, looking back on my career, I wonder, how did I accomplish so much? If I'm honest with myself, it sometimes took being a selfish prick at the expense of you and your mother. Of course, I don't say that. I say talent, work, luck. Your husband doesn't realize what it takes, he... He still believes the speeches.

• Josh : Leslie, are you kidding me? You don't care? You just gave a speech about authenticity!

  Leslie Breitbart : The movie works on so many levels, the happenstance of it, to be honest with you, is the least interesting part.

• Leslie Breitbart : Now, people have criticized me and some of my colleagues, saying that we were pretending to be objective when there is no objectivity. Okay, we were trying to capture truth, but the truth of experience.

  [...] 

  Leslie Breitbart : What we were trying to say as filmmakers is that what we were filming was more interesting than we were. We weren't trying to be objective.

  [...] 

  Leslie Breitbart : We were trying to be open and to learn from the people we were filming.

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  Leslie Breitbart : We saw truth not through telling you what we thought, but through a different ethical approach to filmmaking that allowed the world to reveal itself to us.

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  Leslie Breitbart : What else can I tell you? After all these years, I still don't have all the answers. And for the sake of documentary cinema, I intend to leave it that way.

• Leslie Breitbart : Josh, your sleeve is on fire!

  [Jamie puts it out] 

  Leslie Breitbart : Are you okay, son?