Soul-Searching Movies

"Are we like couples you see in restaurants? Are we the dining dead?"

"I feel like I've been in a coma for the past twenty years. And I'm just now waking up."

"A little advice about feelings kiddo; don't expect it always to tickle."

"Well, I have to admit that things are really starting to look up for me since my life turned to shit."

"Well, all I'm saying is that I want to look back and say that I did I the best I could while I was stuck in this place. Had as much fun as I could while I was stuck in this place. Played as hard as I could while I was stuck in this place... Dogged as many girls as I could while I was stuck in this place."

"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."

Charlie Kaufman's neuroticism and stream-of-consciousness thought process is universally relatable.

"What really matters is what you like, not what you are like. books, records, films -- these things matter! Call me shallow, it's the fucking truth."

"Choose life."

Each one of us is a brain...
and an athlete...
and a basket case...
a princess...
and a criminal.

Does that answer your question?

Floating in the pool to Simon and Garfunkel is the ultimate in self-exploration.

It's not / What you thought / When you first began it / You got / What you want / Now you can hardly stand it though / By now you know / It's not going to stop

Added for everything his mentor says.

"You don't know what I can do! You don't know what I can do, what I'm gonna do, or what I'm gonna be! I'm good! I have good things and you don't know about! I'm gonna be something! I am! And don't fucking tell me I'm not!"

"Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."