Daily Dialogue — November 18, 2015

JESS: I think restaurants have become too important.
MARIE: Oh, I agree. Restaurants are to people in the 80s what theater was to people in the 60s. I read that in a magazine.
JESS: I wrote that.
MARIE: Get out of here.
JESS: No, I did. I wrote that.
MARIE: I’ve never quoted anything from a magazine in my life. That’s amazing, don’t you think that’s amazing? And you wrote it?
JESS: I also wrote pasta was the quiche of the 80s.
MARIE: Get over yourself.
JESS: I did!
MARIE: Where did I read that?
JESS: New York Magazine.
HARRY: Sally writes for New York Magazine.
MARIE: You know, that piece had a real impact on me. I don’t know that much about writing, but…
JESS: It spoke to you, and that pleases me.
MARIE: You really have to admire people who can be that articulate.
JESS: Nobody has ever quoted me back to me before.

— When Harry Met Sally (1989), written by Nora Ephron

The Daily Dialogue theme for the month: Writers and Writing. Today’s suggestion by mkm28.

Trivia: The concept of Sally being a picky eater was based on Nora Ephron, the scriptwriter, and so years after the movie came out, when Nora Ephron was on a plane and ordered something very precise, the stewardess looked at her and asked “Have you ever seen the movie ‘When Harry Met Sally’?”

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by mkm28: “The way to a writer’s heart? Compliment their work.” :)