The Dreamers Quotes

Matthew: I was one of the insatiables. The ones you'd always find sitting closest to the screen. Why do we sit so close? Maybe it was because we wanted to receive the images first. When they were still new, still fresh. Before they cleared the hurdles of the rows behind us. Before they'd been relayed back from row to row, spectator to spectator; until worn out, secondhand, the size of a postage stamp, it returned to the projectionist's cabin. Maybe, too, the screen was really a screen. It screened us... from the world.

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Father: Listen to me, Theo. Before you can change the world you must realize that you, yourself, are part of it. You can't stand outside looking in.

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Isabelle: This is a test.

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[first lines]
Matthew: The first time I saw a movie at the cinématèque française I thought, "Only the French... only the French would house a cinema inside a palace."

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[last lines]
Matthew: Listen to me for a second, okay? This is what they do. This is not what we do.
Matthew: [pointing to his head] We use this.
Matthew: We do this. We use this. [kisses Isabelle]
Matthew: We use this. [kisses Theo]
Theo: [speaking in French] Stop it!
Matthew: Isabelle. Come on. Isabe...

Movie: The Dreamers