The French Dispatch (2021)

Liev Schreiber: Talk Show Host

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• Talk Show Host : You've written about the American negro, the French intellectual, the Southern romantic...

  Roebuck Wright : And the anti-negro.

  Talk Show Host : The anti-negro. Scripture, mythology, folklore, true crime, false crime, the ghost story, the picaresque, the bildungsroman. But more than anything, over all these years, you've written about food. Why?

  Roebuck Wright : Who? What? Where? When? How? Valid questions, but I learned as a cub stringer, never, under any circumstance, if it is remotely within your power to resist the impulse, never ask a man why. It - it tightens a fellow up.

  Talk Show Host : I apologize, but I'm going to hold you to it...

  Roebuck Wright : Torture.

  Talk Show Host : ...if you'll agree.

  Roebuck Wright : Self-reflection is a vice best conducted in private or not at all.

• Talk Show Host : Someone told me you have a photographic memory. Is that true?

  Roebuck Wright : That is false. I have a typographic memory. I recollect the written word with considerable accuracy and detail. In other spheres, my powers of retention are distinctly impressionistic. I'm known to my intimates as a most forgetful man.

  Talk Show Host : Yet you remember every word you ever wrote.

  Roebuck Wright : Hmm.

  Talk Show Host : The novels, the essays, the poems, the plays...

  Roebuck Wright : The unrequited valentines. Sadly, I do.