Quotes from Withnail and Us

First - a clip of the music/quotes thing from the closing credits. Lines from the movie played over a guitar, pretty nifty!

Withnail and Us Audio Clip - 409 KB - .mp3 - Download

Insights from Paul McGann (Marwood), Bruce Robinson (director/screenwriter), Richard E Grant (Withnail), and Ralph Brown (Danny)

About the film:

"It's a badly shot film; it's got great dialogue in it though." - Bruce Robinson

"Two actors, out of work actors, the end of the sixties. And they live in this certain squalor in Camden Town." - Paul McGann

"They go on, you know, a misshapen holiday into the countryside and everything goes arse over teacup." - Richard E Grant

"It's a lesson to all filmmakers everywhere that you don't need a good plot." - Ralph Brown

"I just found it amusing, it made me laugh: the predicament of the thespian in crisis." - Bruce Robinson (on writing the script)

About the characters:

"Bruce Robinson described this character [Withnail] as a lying, mendacious, cowardly, prancing, posing, utterly charming old darling." - REG

"Marwood was like that little grain of sand - that little portion of your brain, your sense, you know, the one that gets you home when you're out of your head." - Paul McGann

"Danny is described in the, uh, in the stage directions as a - a wrecked, purple haired, drug dealing, wise fool." - Ralph Brown

Why we love W&I:

"Well I'm biased, you know, 'cos I'm in it, and 'cos I love it." - Paul McGann

"...Because it's very very good, but I don't know why it's very very good." - Ralph Brown

"I have no idea, other than that I just assume there are people who have the same kind of sense of humor." - REG

"People identify with something in there, not just, I don't think, the drink and the drugs and the laughs. I think it's a bit more to it than that." - Ralph Brown

"What I think it does do, um, Withnail, is touch that moment we've all had where we're all broke, all starving, all-aspiring, and all-knowing that it might not work in our lives, you know, and for one of 'em it does not, definitely, and for one of 'em it might." - Bruce Robinson