I'm Not There (2007)

Ben Whishaw: Arthur

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• Arthur : Seven simple rules of going into hiding: one, never trust a cop in a raincoat. Two, beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway. Three, if asked if you care about the world's problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will never ask you again. Four, never give your real name. Five, if ever asked to look at yourself, dont. Six, never do anything the person standing in front of you cannot understand. And finlly seven, never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

• Arthur : I accept chaos. I don't know whether it accepts me.

• Arthur : Silence, experience shows, is what terrifies people most.

• [first lines] 

  Narrator : There he lies. God rest his soul, and his rudeness. A devouring public can now share the remains of his sickness, and his phone numbers. There he lay: poet, prophet, outlaw, fake, star of electricity. Nailed by a peeping tom, who would soon discover...

  Jude : A poem is like a naked person...

  Narrator : - even the ghost was more than one person.

  Arthur : ...but a song is something that walks by itself.

• Arthur : Y'know, it's nature's will. And I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all.

• Arthur : Woody Guthrie was dead, Little Richard was becoming a preacher, so whether you're a folksinger or a Christian, Rock'n'Roll was the devil.