Kinoafisha Films The Souvenir The Souvenir Movie Quotes

The Souvenir Movie Quotes

Anthony We don't know what the inner machinations of their mind are, or their heart. We don't know. But that's what we want to know when we go and see a film. We don't wanna just see life played out as is. We wanna see life as it is experienced, within this soft machine, within this...

Julie But the life of Tony and his mother, they're the lives of real people. I'm not- I'm not making that up.

Anthony Why are they more real than me?

Julie They're not more real than you.

Anthony Am I more real than you?

Julie No. I think we're all equal in that. I think we're all as real as each other. There's no competition. It doesn't matter that they're not real people. I mean, I'm not trying to make a documentary. I'm just- you know, I'm making a feature film.

Anthony Now, are you sure?

Julie Yes, I am. I'm making a feature film.

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[last lines]

Elisa When I am dead, my darling / Sing no sad songs for me / Plant thou no roses at my head / Nor shady cypress tree: / Be the green grass above me / With showers and dewdrops wet / And if thou wilt, remember / And if thou wilt, forget.

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Anthony I can't go into all this. It was an emergency.

Julie What fucking emergency?

Anthony If I hadn't done that on that day, I wouldn't be here now. I... That's all I can tell you.

Julie What's that supposed to mean? You can't say stuff like that and then not... I don't.. I appreciate there are some things you can't tell me.

Anthony Well, uh, you know, I appreciate there's things about me that you find unacceptable. There's things about you I find unacceptable. There's things about this conversation I find unacceptable. We're gonna have to meet somewhere.

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[at a dinner party; Anthony has left the table]

Patrick You don't seem druggy to me.

Julie [smiling] No, I'm not, no, I'm not.

Patrick Interesting. So I'm trying to work out... where you two tessellate here.

[Julie is wordless, confused]

Patrick I'm not good with euphemism, so...

Julie Sorry, I don't understand.

Patrick OK, so,

[gestures to Anthony's vacant seat]

Patrick habitual heroin user,

[gestures to Julie]

Patrick trainee Rotarian... which is a good look, I mean it nicely. How, what, why, when... ?

Julie [quietly stunned] Sorry, I don't...

Patrick You don't even dabble?

Julie No.

Patrick Okay. I mean, I don't, I feel it's very mainstream behavior. I've said to him, it's mainstream. I actually think, you know... I mean, it was fine in the '40s, but...

[Julie is still speechless as Anthony returns]

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Anthony Stop inviting me to torture you.

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Julie I think I'm quite average.

Anthony You're not average. You're lost. And you'll always be lost.

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Julie Days fading into nights, fading into day. Day and night creeping together to a gray nothingness - and no thought. Only each minute's fear of the next.

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Anthony I'm going to do a Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, wall of Jericho with your friends here.

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Anthony You're a dark horse, Julie.

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Patrick It's the ultimate form, because it's maximum cinema. It's movement, music, energy, color. Everything that film should be. And there's never been a good musical made in Britain, I don't think. I mean, there's been some Cliff Richard. You know, "Knees Up Mother Brown", whatever, but, you know, for a country that has the Stones, The Kinks, Small Faces, for there not to be a good musical here is just... It's almost impressive.

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Julie You didn't think I would mind? Is that what you're saying?

Anthony No. No. I knew you'd mind. That's why I didn't tell you.

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Anthony [Julie crying] Please tell me what I've done. Please, because... This is punishing, seeing you like this and then not knowing why.

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Head of Film School The most important thing, about learning in this situation, is that you somehow make a connection between your experience and the experience you're trying to film.

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Patrick You have to listen to a lot of people who think they know about film. Telling you how to make a film, it's like telling someone how to breathe or how to think or... it's ridiculous. And there are no rules. I mean, you know the Tolstoy definition of art? Well, you just have a feeling, and by means of external signs you communicate it to someone else. That's it.

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Anthony I'm fine.

Julie Good. I am as well.

Anthony I don't want to keep feeling I need to, um, illustrate that I'm fine.

Julie You don't have to. You don't have to put up a front or anything, ever, with me.

Anthony Good, 'cause I am fine. I might not look fine, but I am fine.

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Anthony Don't be worthy. Be arrogant. It's much more sexy.

Julie Do you like arrogance?

Anthony I think it'll get you further.

Julie Because you *are* arrogant.

Anthony I know I'm arrogant.

Julie Do you find yourself sexy?

Anthony Yes, all the time.

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Anthony You've got some preconceived idea about some Oxbridge version of a film director and it's all bollocks. You just need to get out there and start filming.

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Rosalind Please, please, please, darling, let the poor man go to sleep. And go to sleep yourself. These dull wits, they need a little bit of shut-eye.

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Head of Film School Hitchcock knew this. I mean, he would change tack. I mean, if "Psycho", you know, the scene in - in "Psycho", the shower scene, is very much fragments - very much withholding. But then elsewhere, he's quite conventional. So he knows when to make those adjustments. Because it is a process, a growth, a building of our sensibilities and our perceptions, and we've got to realize that sometimes we have to change our approach as the journey unfolds.

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Anthony I know he's a cunt, but he's got a point.

Julie I liked him.

Anthony No, you didn't.

Julie I didn't, actually. No, I didn't.

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Julie Are you gonna drink all that brandy?

Anthony Well, I'm not gonna just leave it there.

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Radio Interviewer It's great that you want to make a film in the town. Maybe you could tell us a little bit about it, please.

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William Straight on. Straight ahead. Got to get over the barrier, though. It's a rather curious tradition we have in this house. It's meant to keep the dogs out, but actually it keeps people out.

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Anthony You're not normal at all. You're a freak.

Julie Thank you. How am I a freak?

Anthony Your fragility.

Julie Is that a good thing?

Anthony I think you know.

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