Daily Dialogue — August 5, 2010

“There’s an old joke: Two elderly women are at a Catskill Mountain resort. And one of ’em says: ‘Boy, the food in this place is really terrible.’ The other one says: ‘Yeah, I know. And such small portions.’ Well, that’s essentially how I feel about life. Full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unhappiness, and it’s all over much too quickly.”

 — Alvy Singer (Woody Allen), Annie Hall (1977), written by Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is notable opening lines from a movie.

Trivia: Woody Allen originally envisioned this movie as a murder mystery, with a subplot about a romance. During script revisions, Allen decided to drop the murder plot, which he and Marshall Brickman later revitalized in Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993).