The Dreamers 2003 quotes

We accept you, one of us! One of us!

Isabelle

We do love you very much!

Matthew

I don't want to be loved very much, I just want to be loved.

Matthew

Has he never been inside of you?

Isabelle

He's always inside of me.

Father

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

Father

Poets don't sign petitions. They sign poems.

A petition is a poem.

Father

Yes! And a poem is a petition...

A petition is a poem, a poem is a petition. Those are the most famous lines you ever wrote. And now look at you.

Matthew

I thought you had many lovers. I mean when I saw you for the first time, at the Cinématheque, you and Theo, you looked so cool, so sophisticated. Like a movie star.

Isabelle

I was. I was acting, Matthew.

Isabelle

Théo, Théo. Wake up.

What is it?

Isabelle

I want you to listen.

Why?

Isabelle

Because. Théo?

Mm?

Isabelle

I love you. You know that?

I love you too.

Isabelle

You love me too? That's funny. Are you listening? It's forever, right?

What's forever?

Isabelle

The two of us. Right?

Yes. Why did Matthew say that?

Isabelle

What did Matthew say?

That we're monsters, freaks.

Isabelle

I just want you to tell me that it's forever. It's forever.

Matthew

A petition is a poem and a poem is a petiton...

Matthew

As we walked, we talked and talked and talked about politics, about movies, and about why the French could never come close to producing a good rock band.

Matthew

I could hear my heart pounding. I don't know if it was because I'd just been chased by the police or because I was already in love with my new friends.

Matthew

I don't believe in God, but if I did, he would be a black, left-handed guitarist.

Isabelle

I entered this world on the Champs-Elysees, 1959. La trottoir du Champs Elysees. And do you know what my very first words were? New York Herald Tribune! New York Herald Tribune!

Matthew

I think you prefer when the word "together" means not "a million," but just two.

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.

Isabelle

My parents **** once in their lives. That's why we're twins, they didn't want to make it twice.

Isabelle

Other people's parents are always nicer than our own, and yet for some reason, our grandparents are always nicer than other people's.

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."

Matthew

There's no such thing as love. There are only proofs of love.

. A revolution isn't a gala dinner. It cannot be created like a book, a drawing or a tapestry. It cannot unfold with such elegance, tranquility and delicacy. Or such sweetness, affability. Courtesy, restraint and generosity. A revolution is an uprising, a violent act by which one class overthrows another.