Daily Dialogue — September 26, 2015

Doctor: What are you doing here, honey? You’re not even old enough to know how bad life gets.
Cecilia: Obviously, Doctor, you’ve never been a thirteen year-old girl.

— The Virgin Suicides (1999), screenplay by Sofia Coppola, novel by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Depression.

Trivia: After she had written the script, Sofia Coppola was heartbroken to discover that another company was already producing an adaptation of the book themselves. However, they were not happy with their script, so she showed them hers and they ended up using it instead.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Cecilia attempts suicide in the movies opening sequence, a startling way to begin a story.