Will Hunting: I went on a date last week.
Sean Maguire: How’d it go?
Will Hunting: It was good.
Sean Maguire: Goin’ out again?
Will Hunting: I don’t know.
Sean Maguire: Why?
Will Hunting: Haven’t called her.
Sean Maguire: Christ, you’re an amateur.
Will Hunting: I know what I’m doin’. Yeah. Don’t worry about me. I know what I’m doin’. Yeah, but this girl was, like, you know, beautiful. She’s smart. She’s fun. She’s different from most of the girls I’ve been with.
Sean Maguire: So call her up, Romeo.
Will Hunting: Why? So I can realize she’s not that smart? That she’s fuckin’ boring? You know, I mean, you don’t – This girl’s, like, fuckin’ perfect right now. I don’t wanna ruin that.
Sean Maguire: Maybe you’re perfect right now. Maybe you don’t wanna ruin that. But I think that’s a super philosophy, Will. That way, you can go through your entire life without ever having to really know anybody.
My wife used to fart when she was nervous. She had all sorts of wonderful idiosyncrasies. You know, she used to fart in her sleep. Just thought I’d share that with you. One night it was so loud, it woke the dog up. She woke up and gone, like, “Was that you?” I said, “Yeah.” I didn’t have the heart to tell her. Oh, God.
Will Hunting: She woke herself up?
Sean Maguire: Yes. Oh, Christ. But, Will, she’s been dead two years and that’s the shit I remember. It’s wonderful stuff, you know? Little things like that. Yeah, but those are the things I miss the most. Those little idiosyncrasies that only I knew about. That’s what made her my wife. Boy, and she had the goods on me too. She knew all my little peccadillos. People call these things “imperfections,” but they’re not. That’s the good stuff. And then we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds.
You’re not perfect, sport. And let me save you the suspense: this girl you met, she isn’t perfect either. But the question is whether or not you’re perfect for each other. That’s the whole deal. That’s what intimacy is all about. Now you can know everything in the world, sport, but the only way you’re findin’ out that one is by givin’ it a shot. You certainly won’t learn from an old fucker like me. Even if I did know, I wouldn’t tell a pissant like you.
Will Hunting: Yeah, why not? You told me every other fuckin’ thing. Jesus Christ. Fuckin’ talk more than any shrink I ever seen in my life.
Sean Maguire: I teach the shit. I didn’t say I knew how to do it.
Will Hunting: Yeah… You ever think about gettin’ remarried?
Sean Maguire: My wife’s dead.
Will Hunting: Hence the word “remarried.”
Sean Maguire: She’s dead.
Will Hunting: Yeah, well, I think that’s a super philosophy, Sean. I mean, that way, you can actually go through the rest of your life without ever really knowing anybody.
Prometheus Unbound 