DIANE: We’ll see.

LLOYD: Okay. It’s good knowing this.

DIANE: Yeah, uh-huh.

(Lloyd brings the car to a full stop.)

LLOYD: Okay, what did we just decide?

DIANE: We decided…

LLOYD: 
’Cause I’m worried, did you just break up with me?

DIANE:
 No, no.

LLOYD: It sounded like you did.

DIANE: No. We decided that we’re friends. I mean, I know it’s a terrible word…

LLOYD: Well, if we’re friends, why can’t we see each other?

DIANE: I think that we should stop going out on dates.

LLOYD:
 I feel like a dick. You must think I’m a dick.

DIANE: No, I don’t, I don’t.

LLOYD: Yeah you do.

DIANE: Lloyd, we shared the most intimate thing two people can share.

LLOYD: You shared it with a dick.

DIANE: No, I didn’t.

LLOYD: Is this because of your dad?

DIANE: No.

LLOYD: Did you talk to Corey?

DIANE: Why, did you tell Corey what happened?

LLOYD: She figured it out. I’m sorry if that upsets you.

DIANE: No, that’s fine. She’ll tell everybody, but that’s fine.

LLOYD: Did you tell anybody?

DIANE: Just my dad.

LLOYD: You told your dad?

DIANE: You have Corey and D.C., I have my dad.

LLOYD: What, I’m sorry I said that. Forget I said it, it’s what I thought I meant, but forget.

DIANE: Lloyd, I love you, okay?

LLOYD: What is that? What are you doing with your hands? Talk to me, you’re talking like that girl Sheila.

DIANE: Don’t be mean, this is hard for me, too.

LLOYD: Then don’t do it.

DIANE:
 Oh shit.

(She turns away from him and takes the pen from her coat pocket.)

DIANE: Just take this pen please, and write me?

(She puts the pen on the car dashboard, and turns away again.)

LLOYD: I can’t believe this; you just broke up with me.

(They both sit in silence.)

– Diane (Ione Skye), Lloyd (John Cusack), Say Anything (1989), written by Cameron Crowe

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is break-ups, suggested by Teddy Pasternak, who also suggested Say Anything, along with Vito Delsante.

Trivia: Producer James L. Brooks said what inspired this movie was an incident where Brooks saw a man walking with his daughter. He saw them and wondered what would happen if the father committed a crime. Those thoughts were used to create the story.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Doesn’t this capture the moment beautifully, the jumbled of emotions and thoughts, reflected in the kinetic, chaotic twists and turns in the dialogue?