A character in Vanilla Sky (2001)

Dr. Curtis McCabe quotes from Vanilla Sky (2001)

Kurt Russell

Scenes with Dr. Curtis McCabe

5 scenes
Dr. Curtis McCabe
[Interpreting David's dream of driving the ominously deserted streets of Manhattan in the morning and then out bursting in existential torment]

Well, I suppose the empty street meant loneliness.

David Ames

You're a shrink. You gotta do better than that.

Dr. Curtis McCabe

I'm a doctor. Let's not stereotype each other. Not all rich kids are soul less and... not all psychologists care about dreams. The question is how you got here and why you've been charged.

David Ames

What do you want to know? I was about to turn 33. I ran three magazines and a world wide publishing house. Most days I fooled myself in to believing it would last forever. Isn't that what being young is about? Believing secretly that you would be... the one person in the history of man... who would live forever.

Dr. Curtis McCabe

Where you going so early?

Office assistant

David! Okay, they're all waiting for you.

Board Member

You changed your hair.

David Ames

Yes.

Board Member

And David... opinions are expected.

Dr. Curtis McCabe
[Voiceover]

Do you dream about the board; the Seven Dwarfs as you call them? [Camera focuses on each board members face] Sneezy, Bashful... Sleepy... Happy... Doc... Dopey... and of course, Grumpy.

Board Member

How was Aspen?

David Ames

Good. Now, I want answers and I want them now. How's it going? [Voice of thought] They still look at me as if I was 11 years old.

Office staffer

He's going to inherit everything. He gets it all.

Dr. Curtis McCabe

You're scared of your dreams, aren't you?

David Ames

It's a nightmare either way.

Dr. Curtis McCabe

Is that how you explain what's happened to you?

David Ames

What?

Dr. Curtis McCabe

What happened to your face?

David Ames

I'm not talking to you anymore.

Dr. Curtis McCabe

You don't wanna show me your face?

David Ames

No!

Dr. Curtis McCabe

Do you know why you're here? Conversation, the coffee... David, the part where we parry and just... and get to know each other bit by bit--

David Ames

No. No can do.

Dr. Curtis McCabe

We'll have to skip that because you've been charged with murder. In four weeks, a judge will determine your fate... based on what I write. So you will talk to me.

David Ames

There is no murder. There is no murder! It never happened! I don't have to talk to anybody!

Dr. Curtis McCabe

Want me to help?

David Ames

Get the **** away from me.

Dr. Curtis McCabe

You take it easy, sunshine. Take it easy, Face.

David Ames

Your whole story's full of holes!

Dr. Curtis McCabe
[To security guard]

Stop. Stop! Please leave right now. I'll take responsibility. Please leave right now.

Security guard
[To colleague]

He's got control.

Dr. Curtis McCabe

I'm gonna get you, daddy's boy little freak.

David Ames

My parents are dead, you ****!

Dr. Curtis McCabe

Enough! Is that true?

David Ames

Good cop, bad cop...

Dr. Curtis McCabe

That you're a daddy's boy?

Dr. Curtis McCabe

Why are you scared of heights? Many people are scared of heights.

David Ames

It's not the height that bothers me. It's the impact that terrifies me.

Dr. Curtis McCabe

I won't stay long.

Dr. Curtis McCabe

And you didn't immediately wanna sleep with her?

David Ames

Well, you know, I'm a pleasure delayer.

Dr. Curtis McCabe

How does that work? Pleasure delayer?

David Ames

You don't know? You keep a relationship casual... until the absolute breaking point. And then one evening or afternoon or morning, it could be months from now. You know how it works.

Dr. Curtis McCabe

No, actually I don't. I've been married for 22 years.

David Ames

You've got dinner with your daughters.

Dr. Curtis McCabe

That's right, I do.

David Ames

Back then I had intricate systems with women... you wouldn't believe.

Dr. Curtis McCabe

Like what?

David Ames

Hey, Doc, don't get melancholy over the 30 seconds you were single... a long time ago.

Dr. Curtis McCabe

That's what you think I'm doing?

David Ames

Oh, yes.

Dr. Curtis McCabe

You might be right. Let's continue. Time is not our friend.

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