Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Hope Davis: Madeleine Gravis
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Caden Cotard : I wanted to ask you, how old are kids when they start to write?
Madeleine Gravis : Listen, there's an absolutely brilliant novel written by a four year old.
Caden Cotard : Really?
Madeleine Gravis : 'Little Winky" by Horace Azpiazu.
Caden Cotard : That's cute.
Madeleine Gravis : Hardly, Litty Winky is a virulent anti-Semite. The story follows his initiation into the klan, his immersion in the pornographic snuff industry, and his ultimate degradation at the hands of a black ex-convict named Eric Washington Jackson Jones Johnson...
Caden Cotard : -Written by a four year old?
Madeleine Gravis : -Jefferson.
Caden Cotard : Wow, written by a four year old.
Madeleine Gravis : Well Azpiazu killed himself when he was five.
Caden Cotard : Why did he kill himself?
Madeleine Gravis : I don't know, why did you?
Caden Cotard : What?
Madeleine Gravis : I said, 'Why would you?'