Inception Quotes

[ Saito has been shot in the chest ]
Cobb : How's he doing?
Ariadne : He's in a lot of pain.
Cobb : When we get down to the lower levels, the pain will be less intense.
Ariadne : And if he dies?
Cobb : Worst case scenario? When he wakes up, his mind is completely gone.
Saito : Cobb. I'll still honor the arrangement.
Cobb : I appreciate that, Saito, but when you wake up, you won't even remember that we had an arrangement. Limbo's gonna become your reality. You're gonna be lost down there so long that you're gonna become an old man.
Saito : Filled with regret.
Cobb : Waiting to die alone.
Saito : No. I'll come back. And we'll be young men together again.

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Cobb : You got the basic layout. Bookstore, cafe, almost everything else is here too.
Ariadne : Who are the people?
Cobb : Projections of my subconscious.
Ariadne : Yours?
Cobb : Yes. Remember, you are the dreamer, you build this world. I am the subject, my mind populates it. You can literally talk to my subconscious. That's one of the ways we extract information from the subject.
Ariadne : How else do you do it?
Cobb : By creating something secure, like a bank vault or a jail. The mind automatically fills it with information it's trying to protect. Understand?
Ariadne : Then you break in and steal it?
Cobb : Well...
Ariadne : I guess I thought that the dream space would be all about the visual. But it's more about a feel of it. My question is what happens when you start messing with the physics of it all...? [ folds city on top of itself ]
Ariadne : It's something, isn't it?
Cobb : Yes, it is.

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Ariadne : Why are they all looking at me?
Cobb : Because my subconscious feels that someone else is creating this world. The more you change things, the quicker the projections start to converge on you.
Ariadne : Converge?
Cobb : They sense the foreign nature of the dreamer. they attack like white blood cells fighting an infection.
Ariadne : What? They're going to attack us?
Cobb : No, no. [ quietly; almost to himself ]
Cobb : Just you. [ creates a new bridge over the street ]
Cobb : This is great, but I'm telling you, if you keep changing things...

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[ creates a whole new location out of two mirrors ]
Cobb : Very impressive. [ notices Mal; flashback of himself and Mal on the same bridge ]
Cobb : I know this bridge. This place is real, isn't it?
Ariadne : Yeah, I cross it everyday on the way to the college.
Cobb : Never recreate places from your memory. Always imagine new places.
Ariadne : Well, you gotta draw from stuff you know, right?
Cobb : Only use details, a street lamp or a phone booth, never entire areas.
Ariadne : Why not?
Cobb : Because building a dream from your memory is the easiest way to lose your grasp on what's real and what is a dream.
Ariadne : Is that what happened to you? [ grabs her arm ]
Cobb : Hey listen to me. This has nothing to do with me. Understand?
Ariadne : Is that why you need me to build your dreams?

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Cobb : Downwards is the only way forwards.

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Eames : Ah. So, this is your idea of losing a tail, huh?
Cobb : Different tail.

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Cobb : All right, we continue on with the job, and we do it as fast as possible, and we get out using the kit, just like before.
Eames : Forget it. We go any deeper, we just raise the stakes. I am sitting this one out on this level, boys.

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Ariadne : You might have the rest of the team convinced to carry on with this job, but they don't know the truth.
Cobb : Truth? What truth?
Ariadne : The truth that at any minute, you might bring a freight train through the wall. The truth that Mal is bursting through your subconscious. And the truth that as we go deeper into Fischer, we're also going deeper into you. And... I'm not sure we're gonna like what we find.

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Ariadne : Do you think you can just build a prison of memories to lock her in? Do you really think that that's gonna contain her?

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Eames : Fischer's OK, unless he gets car-sick.

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Fischer : [ of his father ] At the end, he called me to his deathbed. He could barely speak; but he took the trouble to tell me one last thing. He pulled me close... and I could only make out... one word: "Disappointed."

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Saito : Have you come to kill me? I've been waiting for someone...
Cobb : Someone from a half remembered dream.
Saito : Cobb? Impossible. We were young men together. I'm an old man.
Cobb : Filled with regret...
Saito : Waiting to die alone...
Cobb : I've come back for you... to remind you of something. Something you once knew... [ the top spins without end ]
Cobb : That this world is not real.
Saito : To convince me to honor our arrangement.
Cobb : To take a leap of faith, yes. Come back... so we can be young men together again. Come back with me... [ Saito reaches for the gun ]
Cobb : Come back...

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Arthur : [ Getting out of the water after the kicks ] What happened?
Ariadne : Cobb stayed.
Arthur : With Mal?
Ariadne : No, to find Saito.
Arthur : He'll be lost.
Ariadne : No he'll be all right.

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Maurice Fischer : [ Robert opens the vault to see Maurice on his death bed struggling to say something ] Disa... disap... disappointed
Fischer : I know, Dad. I know you were disappointed I couldn't be you.
Maurice Fischer : No. No, no. I was disappointed... that you tried. [ Robert opens the safe to find the new Last Will and Testament along with the pinwheel from when he was a kid. The inception has worked ]

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Cobb : I'm going to improvise. Listen, there's something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.

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