Henry & June (1990)

Fred Ward: Henry Miller

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• Henry Miller : All right, I'll tell you. June appeared like an Angel, and I offered her a fool's faith. She was a taxi dancer. I paid my dime, she put her head on my shoulder, but then the lies began. She told me her mother was a gypsy and her father was a count. Later, I saw a film and realized she swiped her whole childhood right out of the film.

  AnaÔs Nin : And so?

  Henry Miller : So I married her.

• Henry Miller : I'm not a portrait painter.

  June Miller : I'll say you're not. Look what you've done to Anais. You make everything ugly! Beauty is a joke for you. You're so negative. You're a failure as a writer. You're not a man, you're a child! You use women! You used me, you fucker!

  Henry Miller : AAAHHH!

  June Miller : You fucker!

• Henry Miller : And that's our task. Liberation. Freedom. Let's toast to Lawrence. Let's toast to our defects. Toast, to our friendship. Drink cold, piss warm.

• Henry Miller : Hell of a place you got here, Hugo. Peaceful. Been here long?

  Hugo Guiler : Just since the crash.

  Henry Miller : Since the crash? How did you live before?

  Hugo Guiler : We lived well. This is Henry Miller, the American writer Osborn is putting up. My wife, Anais Nin.

  Henry Miller : How are you, Anis?

  Hugo Guiler : Eduardo Sanchez, Anais' cousin. Anais, you should read Henry's stuff.

  Richard Osborn : For my money, he's got it over D.H. Lawrence.

  AnaÔs Nin : I'd love to read your writing.

  Richard Osborn : He hasn't been published yet.

• Henry Miller : I feel like the war's over.

• Henry Miller : She is my fucking wife.

  AnaÔs Nin : You don't understand your own fucking wife.

• Henry Miller : I'd believe only in a god that understood how to dance. Isn't that something?