Matthew I don't believe in God, but if I did, he would be a black, left-handed guitarist.
Played by Michael Pitt 
The Dreamers (2003) · 13 quotes
The Dreamers (2003) · 13 quotes
Most-quoted character in The Dreamers (2003): in 9 of its 13 quotes
A line from MatthewThere's no such thing as love. There are only proofs of love.
More lines from Matthew
7 quotes Matthew 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 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 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.
Matthew I think you prefer when the word "together" means not "a million," but just two.
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.
Scenes with Matthew
1 scene
Isabelle, Théo
We accept you, one of us! One of us!
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?
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.
I was. I was acting, Matthew.
Théo, Théo. Wake up.
What is it?
I want you to listen.
Why?
Because. Théo?
Mm?
I love you. You know that?
I love you too.
You love me too? That's funny. Are you listening? It's forever, right?
What's forever?
The two of us. Right?
Yes. Why did Matthew say that?
What did Matthew say?
That we're monsters, freaks.
I just want you to tell me that it's forever. It's forever.
