Usher (2000)

Curtis Harrington: Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher

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• Roderick Usher : What brings you here?

  Truman Jones : To ask you questions about your work, Mr. Usher. To learn more about the art of poetry.

  Roderick Usher : I am not a teacher, Mr. Jones. I am simply a poet. Perhaps, not a very good one, at that.

• Roderick Usher : The work of the artist comes from the heart - and the heart is a secret place.

• Roderick Usher : Welcome. Do forgive me if I don't get up. My energy has been rather depleted these days.

• Roderick Usher : I won't ask if you've had a pleasant journey. Airplane travel is an abomination. It's a pity you couldn't have come on the Sunset Limited.

  Truman Jones : I - don't think it exist anymore, sir.

  Roderick Usher : Quite so. Think of them, Mr Jones: The Orient-Simplon Express, the Golden Arrow, the Brighton Bell, the Twentieth Century Limited. Names to conjure with. All gone.

• Roderick Usher : We shall have tea in a moment. But, perhaps you'd like some gin?

  Truman Jones : No, thank you.

  Roderick Usher : My only weakness.

• Roderick Usher : You must never forget that the life of the artist is less important than his art.

• Roderick Usher : You must try one of Pierre's excellent Madeleines. They always make one think of Proust. Speak of the devil.

• Roderick Usher : Tell me, Mr. Jones, have you ever written a poem about death?

  Truman Jones : No, I haven't.

  Roderick Usher : Has it's cold breath never touched your young life.

  Truman Jones : When I was 12, my father died.

  Roderick Usher : You see, I have been suffering from a certain morbidness of the mind. I am tormented by - images - of the conqueror worm devouring flesh, that flesh that once gave one so much pleasure.

• Roderick Usher : I adore a good storm, don't you?

• Roderick Usher : Now you understand. We share the same soul.

• Truman Jones : Checkmate.

  Roderick Usher : Damn.