Yusuf That many dreams within dreams is too unstable.
Played by Dileep Rao 
Inception (2010) · 81 quotes
Inception (2010) · 81 quotes
6th most-quoted character in Inception (2010): in 8 of its 81 quotes
Most scenes with: Cobb (4), Eames (4), Arthur (3)
..."Did you see that?" [everyone is asleep]
More lines from Yusuf
2 quotes Yusuf Yusuf Oh, ha, bloody ha!
Scenes with Yusuf
5 scenes Yusuf You are seeking a chemist?
Yes.
Yusuf To formulate compounds for a job?
And to go into the field with us.
Yusuf No, I rarely go into the field, Mr. Cobb.
Well, we'd need you there to tailor compounds specific to our needs.
Yusuf Which are?
Great depth.
Yusuf A dream within a dream? Two levels?
Yusuf Not possible. That many dreams within dreams is too unstable.
It is possible. You just have to add a sedative.
Yusuf A powerful sedative....How many team members?
Five.
Six...The only way to know you've done the job is if I go in with you.
There's no room for tourists on a job like this, Mr. Saito.
This time, it seems there is.
Yusuf This, I think, is a good place to start. I use it everyday.
What for?
Yusuf Here, I'll show you... [Yusuf grabs his keys, then gives it second thoughts]...Perhaps you will not want to see.
...After you.
[Cobb, Eames, Saito, and Yusuf enter a room with a dozen dreaming people]
Ten, twelve all connected. Bloody hell.
Yusuf They come every day to share the dream. [An old man slaps one of the dreamers, who does not wake] You see? Very stable.
How long do they dream for?
Yusuf Three, four hours, each day.
In dream time?
Yusuf With this compound? About 40 hours, each and every day.
Why do they do it?
Yusuf Tell him, Mr. Cobb.
After a while it becomes the only way you can dream.
Yusuf Do you still dream, Mr. Cobb?
They come here every day to sleep?
Old Man
No. They come to be woken up. The dream has become their reality. Who are you to say otherwise, sir?
Three layers down, the dreams are gonna collapse with the slightest disturbance.
Yusuf Sedation. For sleep, stable enough to create three layers of dreaming, we'll have to combine it with an extremely powerful sedative.
Yusuf The compound we'll be using to share the dream creates a very clear connection between dreamers whilst actually accelerating brain function.
In other words, it gives us more time on each level.
Yusuf Brain function in the dream will be about 20 times normal. When you enter a dream within that dream, the effect is compounded. It's three dreams, that's 10 hours times 20--
It's a week the first level down, Six months the second level down, The third level--
That's 10 years. Who'd would want to be stuck in a dream for ten years?
Yusuf Depends on the dream.
So, once we've made the plant, how do we get out? I'm hoping you have something more elegant in mind than shooting me in the head?
A kick.
What's a kick?
This, Ariadne, would be a kick. [kicks Arthur's chair; Arthur flails but manages to right himself]
It's that feeling of falling you get that jolts you awake. It snaps you out of the dream.
Are we going to feel a kick with this kind of sedation?
Yusuf Ahh, that's the clever part. I customize the sedative to leave inner ear function unimpaired. That way, however deep the sleep, the sleeper still feels falling, or tipping.
The trick is to synchronize a kick that can penetrate all three levels.
We could use the musical countdown to synchronize the different kicks.
[Everyone has just entered Yusuf's dream, a city in a heavy downpour]
You couldn't have peed before you went under?
Yusuf Sorry.
A bit too much free champagne before takeoff, eh, Yusuf?
Yusuf [deadpan]
Ha ha bloody-ha.
Well, we know he's going to be looking for a taxi in this weather.
