Madrid, 1987 Quotes
Miguel: Meeting people you admire is the first step towards not admiring them any more. You can only admire bodies and dead people. What's inside is dirty, rotten, untidy. It's better no to go in.
Movie: Madrid, 1987
Miguel: Wow! I thought the ones you screwed always held a grudge, but I see you have to watch out for the ones you don't screw as well.
Movie: Madrid, 1987
Miguel: When you write in the papers every day for 25 years, you don't even get along with your shadow. People put up with you, period.
Movie: Madrid, 1987
Miguel: That's what gets me about this country. We went from a grotesque tragedy to an American TV series. Like 'Eight is Enough' or something. From Goya to Norman Rockwell.
Movie: Madrid, 1987
Miguel: One day, after Catholic school, walking along the dock, he sees a beautiful girl walking in the water with her skirt pulled up, and it's like an illumination. An illumination that leads him to choose life and art above everything else. Even if life is disorder and art is suffering.
Movie: Madrid, 1987
Miguel: The worst part is everyone will imagine what we did here all this time, and we won't be able to tell the truth because it's too ridiculous.
Movie: Madrid, 1987
Miguel: You crossed the cafe like a gazelle, totally out of place among all this vulgarity.
Movie: Madrid, 1987