Day for Night Movie Quotes
Julie
Liliane ran off with the stuntman.
Joelle
Does Alphonse know?
Julie
I had to tell him.
Joelle
With the stuntman? I'd drop a guy for a film. I'd never drop a film for a guy!
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director Ferrand
Making a film is like a stagecoach ride in the old west. When you start, you are hoping for a pleasant trip. By the halfway point, you just hope to survive.
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Ferrand
"The Godfather" is showing all over Nice. It's wiping out every other movie.
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director Ferrand
Come on Alphonse. Go back to your room, re-read the script, learn your lines, then try to sleep. Tomorrow we work. That's what matters. Don't be a fool. You're a very good actor. No one's private life runs smoothly. That only happens in the movies. No traffic jams, no dead periods. Movies go along like trains in the night. And people like you and me are only happy in our work. I'm counting on you.
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Ferrand
What is a film director? A man who's asked questions about everything. Sometimes he knows the answers.
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Ferrand
Tell him the car crash we're shooting tomorrow will be in American night.
Julie
What is American night?
Ferrand
A night scene shot in daylight with a special filter.
Julie
Ah, day for night.
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Séverine
The actor had always dreamed of playing Hamlet. At last, he staged it and played the role! But he was so bad, he was booed every night. One night he was fed up, he stopped in the middle of "To be or not to be", turning to the audience, he said: "I didn't write the shit."
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director Ferrand
People used to stare at fires. Now they watch TV. We need to see moving images, especially after dinner.
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Alexandre
In 80 movies I've died 24 times - electrocuted twice, hanged twice. I've been knifed, committed suicide, died in accidents, but never a natural death. Anyway, I don't think death is natural.
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Alexandre
How's your mother?
Julie
Very good. I told her we were working together. She sends her love.
Alexandre
Marvelous woman! Everyone in Hollywood loved her. Too bad she quit when she did.
Julie
But she's still very busy.
Alexandre
She hated the way we shoot movies - in bits and pieces! I remember escorting her to the premiere of her first big Hollywood movie. A fantastic evening! When the film ended, she sat there, then turned to me and said: "I did all that? All I remember is the waiting."
Julie
It's so true!
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Madame Lajoie
What is this - filmmaking? You call that a business? You've no morals. Everybody sleeps with everyone! What is it but a dirty lie. You call that normal? Filthy cinema - you're a plague on the world! You smell of filth! You'll pay for your sins! I despise you!
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director Ferrand
I speak English well, but don't understand it!
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Ferrand
Quiet! A full rehearsal. Let's go, Séverine.
Séverine
"I don't understand you Alexander! You're - "
Alexandre
"Peculiar"
Séverine
Oh, yes.
Ferrand
It's all right! Take it from the top, right away. Let's go, Séverine.
Séverine
"I don't understand you Alexander! You've been peculiar, lately. Walking out on dinner last night! That was an insult to Julie." Damn! I said Julie instead of Pamela.
Ferrand
Not to worry.
Séverine
I've got an idea! I'll use numbers, the way I do for Fellini! Instead of "I don't understand you Alexander..." I'll say, 22, 83, 16, 72, 5, 3, 18, 9, 14, 7, 9. 17, 10, 10, 4, 18, 69...
Ferrand
Impossible, Séverine. In France, we have to say the lines.
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Alphonse
Bernard, are women magic?
Bernard, l'accessoiriste
Not women, their legs! That's why they wear skirts.
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Bertrand
An actress who won't appear in a bathing suit is ludicrous!
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Ferrand
She's always around!
Joelle
She's Lajoie's wife.
Ferrand
She thinks she's a crew member?
Joelle
No, she thinks women are after him! She makes his life hell. He's too weak to dump her. We call them "The Sorrow and the Pity"!
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Alphonse
Let me ask you, are women magic?
Lajoie, le régisseur
No, they're not. Neither are men. If a woman says she's known outstanding men, it means she's slept around.
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Alphonse
I'm sure Ferrand is wrong. Life is more important than films.
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Lajoie, le régisseur
Hey, the movie quiz!
TV Game Show Host
In what movie did Jeanne Moreau co-star with Orson Welles, in a Shakespeare film?
Lajoie, le régisseur
Lajoie, le régisseur, Bernard, l'accessoiriste: Falstaff!
TV Game Show Host
In what movie was she Charles IX's sister and and Henry IV's wife?
Lajoie, le régisseur
Queen Margot
Bernard, l'accessoiriste
Right! You know your stuff.
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[repeated line]
Alphonse
Are women magic?
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Alexandre
Actors are so vulnerable!
Dr. Michael Nelson
Of course they are. Everyone is afraid of being judged. But actors are always being judged. In your work, and in your life!
Alexandre
Yes. We wonder what people think of us, if they love us. It must be the same for all performers. As a child, when Mozart was asked to play, he'd reply: "Gladly, but first say you love me."
Dr. Michael Nelson
And in your job, you're always kissing.
Alexandre
As you say, yes, we do a lot of kissing. The handshake was invented to show you're unarmed, friendly. We went one better: we show our love.
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Ferrand
We do the kitchen scene tomorrow.
Julie
Can I have my lines?
Ferrand
After dinner tonight.
Julie
That's not much time!
Ferrand
It's not written yet. Read it once and put it under your pillow. In the morning, you'll know it by heart!
Julie
Optimist, huh!
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Joelle
The scene needs a new idea. Call your co-writer!
Ferrand
I thought of it. He's in Japan. He's adapting Turgenev's "First Love". Set in modern Japan. Great idea!
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Joelle
Back to work! You dictate, I'll type. We promised it to Julie tonight.
Ferrand
Okay, back to the kitchen. No more guilt or sense of shame. They decide to run away like thieves in the night.
Joelle
"Pamela" could actually say that! We must show that she's completely lucid. She loved the son, now she loves the father. That must come across.
Ferrand
Yes. Julie explained it very well. Here's her interview in the morning paper: "The girl realizes the boy she married is only a pale reflection to his father." She understood the script! Why? Because her mother was an actress. She knows Hollywood, where many kids try to live up to famous parents. Fairbanks, Barrymore and others.
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Julie
He loves you and wants to marry you.
Liliane, la stagiaire scripte
He mentioned marriage, I didn't! Just the word gives me the creeps. Anyway, he needs a wife, a mistress, a nanny, a nurse, a sister. I can't play all those roles!
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Séverine
What a funny life we lead! We meet, we work together, we love each other and then, as soon as we grasp something - it's gone.
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[last lines]
TV reporter
Tell me: Wasn't this a hard film to make? I heard there were some rocky moments.
Bernard
Not at all. It went fine! And we hope audiences enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it.
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Bernard, l'accessoiriste
Joelle, if you're in the mood...
Joelle
For what?
Bernard, l'accessoiriste
We're all alone here...
Joelle
Okay, you're on!
Bernard, l'accessoiriste
What?
Joelle
All bark and no bite! But when it's time for action...
Bernard, l'accessoiriste
You're willing?
Joelle
Yes. But we haven't got all day. - - Move it!
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Alphonse
You see, I've made a terrible discovery. You can be desperately in love with someone you despise, whose every gesture, word and thought you detest!
Julie
What right have you to say that? Say you made a mistake but never be ashamed of having loved. By despising Liliane, you're merely degrading yourself.
Alphonse
Maybe you're right. Anyway, my love affairs have always ended badly. I thought women were magic.
Julie
Of course they're not magic. Or men are too. Everyone's magic, and no one is.
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Alexandre
Remember when we first met in Hollywood?
Séverine
No dates! Never mention numbers! Or I'll tell everyone you had a facelift!
Alexandre
Not yet. It's coming!
[Séverine laughs]
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Séverine
It's not my fault!
Ferrand
Cut! Once more.
Séverine
It's not my fault if I'm confused! I don't know if she's Odile, the actress. Or, Odile the make-up girl! In my day, acting was acting and make-up was make-up! No wonder I'm confused!
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Alphonse
Alexandre, excuse me. Can I ask you something?
Alexandre
Yes.
Alphonse
In your opinion, are women magic?
Alexandre
Some are, yes. Others, no!
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Alexandre
Movie people may be more obvious about it, but love makes the world go round!
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Alexandre
There was an Austrian actress, Hedy Lamarr, became a big Hollywood star. She really missed the rainy climate of her native Tyrol. So, in her garden in California, she installed a rain-making machine.
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Joelle
Like the chef in "Rules Of The Game", "I cater to diets, but not fad!"
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Bertrand
That's not nice or friendly. Aren't we one big family?
Alexandre
So were the people in Greek tragedies!
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Bertrand
The way to make money is in real estate, not movies!
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Le producteur de films érotiques
[to Ferrand]
I'd like you to meet two German girls. They're sisters: Greta and Diana. She was in a big German political film. Do you do any? She was in an erotic film. Why don't you do one? I have a good script about pollution.
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Joelle
How about Alexander? He fooled everybody. We all expected a Lolita and a handsome Romeo got off the plane!
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Interviewer
Can you tell us about your new movie?
Julie
"Meet Pamela" is the story of a British girl who falls in love with her husband's father. I think it's based on a true story.
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Bernard, l'accessoiriste
Why did you let me know, puss? You got me in trouble.
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Alexandre
Any champagne left?
Bernard, l'accessoiriste
No, we'll have to move on to Pernod.
Alexandre
Champagne's gone. You won't get drunk.
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Ferrand
We'll shoot the scene when you find a cat that can act!
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Ferrand
Walter, have a look. The pictures of Julie.
Walter, le chef opérateur
I remember her in that movie with the car-chase.
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Liliane, la stagiaire scripte
I saw you!
Alphonse
Saw me, what?
Liliane, la stagiaire scripte
You're hot for the maid.
Alphonse
I am?
Liliane, la stagiaire scripte
Bastard! She's your type. A bouncy little duckling.
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Séverine
Isn't he adorable? When did I work with him...? Oh, Mamma Mia, 20 years ago in Hollywood! We were there at the same time. You know, he was a real ladies man. In Hollywood, they called him the continental lover. I loved him, too.
Odile, la maquilleuse
Is he married?
Séverine
I don't know if he is now. He was married and divorced twice. Maybe he lives with someone. No one knows. He's very secretive.
Odile, la maquilleuse
He has a moustache in the movie. I like it.
Séverine
Moustache or not, he is still playing lovers! And look at me... I'm only cast as the neglected wife! Desperate... tragic... a real pain...
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Alphonse
Do me a favor. Walk ahead so I can watch your ass.
Liliane, la stagiaire scripte
Like this?
Alphonse
Yes, like that!
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Julie
I'm sick of disguises. I'm quitting movies. I know that life is rotten.
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Ferrand
Let's go before it gets dark!
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Stacey
I don't know why Ferrand cast me? He can't stand me1
Joelle
Who told you that?
Stacey
I know he thinks I'm a lousy actress. Just between us, maybe he's right. No, he didn't cast me! Was it the producer? Something's peculiar about this film.
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[first lines; offscreen, under the opening credits]
Georges - The Composer
[to orchestra]
Silence, please, and watch the notes carefully... Slowly. Nice and relaxed... The beginning again... All together, give me a nice clean attack... Here's where you can speed up a bit... Keep the legato going. No breaks... That's it...
Georges - The Composer
[after vocalizing a segment]
Accent that last chord, but then hold it... Take it from 13...
Georges - The Composer
[under the directing credit]
Don't get sentimental. Just play the notes.
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Alphonse
I don't read the script.
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Liliane, la stagiaire scripte
You've all got sex on the brain. Dirty talk all day long!
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Ferrand
Cinema is King!
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Joelle
Everyone's nuts on this movie!
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