CINDY: Isn’t there anything you want to do?
DEAN: Like what?
CINDY: I don’t know. You’re so good at so many things, you could do anything you wanted to do, you’re good at everything that you do, isn’t there something else you wanna do?
DEAN: Than what? Than be a husband, to be Frankie’s dad? What do you want me to do? In your dream scenario of me doing what I’m good at, what would that be?
CINDY: I don’t know, you’re so good at so many things, you can do so many things, you have such capacity.
DEAN: For what?
CINDY: You can sing, you can draw, you can dance.
DEAN: Listen I didn’t wanna be somebody’s husband and I didn’t wanna be somebody’s dad. That wasn’t my goal in life. For some guys it is… Wasn’t mine. But somehow, I’ve found what I wanted. I didn’t know that and now it’s all I wanna do… I don’t want to do anything else, it’s what I want to do. I work so I can do that.
CINDY: I’d like to see you have a job where you didn’t have to start drinking at 8 o’clock in the morning to go to it.
DEAN: No, I have a job that I can drink at 8 o’clock in the morning. What a luxury, you know. I get up for work, I have a beer, I go to work, I paint somebody’s house, they’re excited about it. I come home, I get to be with you. That’s like… this is the dream!
CINDY: It doesn’t ever disappoint you?
DEAN: Why? Why would it disappoint me?
CINDY: Because you have all this potential.
DEAN: So what! Why do you have to make money off your potential?
CINDY: Look, I’m not even saying you have to make money off it. Don’t you miss it?
DEAN: What does potential even mean? What does that mean, potential? Potential for what? To turn it into what?
CINDY: You know, we rarely sit down and have an adult conversation. Because every time we do, you take what I say and you turn it around into something that I didn’t mean. You just twist it. Start Blabbing, blah blah blah blah blah.
DEAN: If you’re not interested in what I have to say then maybe I just shouldn’t say anything.
Blue Valentine
Written by
Derek Cianfrance &
Cami Delavigne
and Joey Curtis
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