The truly great movies are never about special effects and grandiose themes and bewildering twisty and complicated plots.
To me, it's about hitting where it matters most - the heart and the head.
That's why "As Good As It Gets" belongs to that genre of the truly great movies.
It's good. It's real. It even hurts to just watch it.
On how difficult it is just to keep breathing sometimes
Simon Bishop: I'm losing my apartment, Melvin. And Frank, he wants me to beg my parents, who haven't called me, for help. And I won't. And... I... I don't want to paint any more. So the life that I was trying for, is over. the life that I had is gone, and I'm feeling so damn sorry for myself that it's difficult to breathe.
Who is that "only person" in your life? The one who knows you're the greatest person on earth? Melvin Melvin Udall: I might be the only person on the face of the earth that knows you're the greatest woman on earth. I might be the only one who appreciates how amazing you are in every single thing that you do, and how you are with Spencer, "Spence," and in every single thought that you have, and how you say what you mean, and how you almost always mean something that's all about being straight and good. I think most people miss that about you, and I watch them, wondering how they can watch you bring their food, and clear their tables and never get that they just met the greatest woman alive. And the fact that I get it makes me feel good, about me.
Where do you go when you have nowhere to go? Melvn Udall: I had to see you. Carol: Because? Melvin Udall: It relaxes me. I'd feel better sitting ouside your apartment on the curb than any other place I can think of or imagine.
It's real. It's true and lovely and good. It's as good as a movie can get.
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