A character in Blow-Up (1966)

Jane quotes from Blow-Up (1966)

Vanessa Redgrave

Scenes with Jane

4 scenes
Jane

What are you doing? Stop it! Stop it! Give me those pictures. You can't photograph people like that.

Thomas

Who says I can't? I'm only doing my job. Some people are bullfighters, some people are politicians. I'm a photographer.

Jane

This is a public place — everyone has the right to be left in peace.

Thomas

It's not my fault if there's no peace. You know, most girls would pay me to photograph them.

Jane

I'll pay you.

Thomas

I overcharge. There are other things I want on the reel.

Thomas

Don't let's spoil everything, we've only just met.

Jane

No, we haven't met — you've never seen me.

Jane

My private life's already a mess. It would be a disaster if…

Thomas

So what? Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out.

Thomas [after handing Jane the phone]: It's my wife.

Jane
[handing him back the phone]

Why should I speak to her?

Thomas

Sorry love, the bird I'm with won't talk to you. [hangs up the phone, and walks around the room] … She isn't my wife, really. We just have some kids. … No, no kids, not even kids. Sometimes, though, it feels as if we had kids. … She isn't beautiful, she's... easy to live with. … No, she isn't. … That's why I don't live with her. … But even with beautiful girls, you look at them and that's that.

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