For the people that I love I only have one face but for some people we can't have one face.
We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)
What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.
Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?
Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.
