- Ross McElwee: As time goes by, my father is beginning to seem less and less real to me in these images. Almost a fictional character. I want so much to reverse this shift, the way in which the reality of him is slipping away. Having this footage doesn't help very much - or, at least, not as much as I thought it would.
- Allan Gurganus: Forbes Magazine and other national periodicals name this state as the great place to move, and I swear the day after the magazine comes out, you can see a difference in traffic patterns. For me, as somebody who grew up connected to a piece of property, albeit one that's now transformed into a trailer park, the idea that you would move to a place because a magazine that you bought for $3.95 *told* you to, is a symptom of such sadness in the culture, I cannot tell you. And it's also gumming up this place for those of us who love it.
- Miss Tobacco: [on being asked about the tobacco industry] It brings a lotta jobs and a lotta revenue, but... it has its health hazards and... everybody's gonna die of something, so...
- [giggles]
- Ross McElwee: May as well be tobacco?
- Miss Tobacco: Might as well die of something that's gonna help out the... the... *what's* the word? Here, I'm thinkin'...
- Ross McElwee: Economy?
- Miss Tobacco: [beams] *There* ya go. There ya go. Havin' a tough mornin'...