IN A LONELY PLACE (1950), Nicholas Ray

"I love the love scene. It's very good."
"That's because they're not always telling each other how much in love they are. A good love scene should be about something else beside love. For instance, this one. Me fixing grapefruit, you sitting over there dopey, half asleep. Anyone looking at us could tell we are in love. "

CRYING OUT LOVE, IN THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD (2004), Isao Yukisada

"You tried? Were you trying to kiss me?"
"I can't?"
"Listen, Saku...Kissing is what you do when you talk about your dreams."
"Yeah, well...What are dreams?"

SON OF RAMBOW (2007), Garth Jennings

"Yes, I promise to astonish you with the news how a river can operate above the level of the flood plain. OK. How do they do that? Arrogant river, thinks it's a bit better than the flood plain? Or is it due to the deposition of the silt? Arrogant river or the deposition?...Yes, it is actually the silt."

LES QUATRE CENTS COUPS (1959), Francois Truffaut

"I need some money for lunch, dad. Only 1,000 francs."
"Therefore you hope for 500. Therefore you need 300. Here's 100."

BRIGHTON ROCK (1947), John Boulting

"People change."
"I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock. Bite one all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature."

LITTLE CHILDREN (2006), Todd Field

"You have a nice place here."
"You think? Yeah, Richard does pretty well for himself."
"Oh, yeah? What's he do?"
"He lies."

THE LOOKOUT (2007), Scott Frank

"I get turned down more times than the beds at the Holiday Inn."

GREGORY'S GIRL (1981), Bill Forsyth

"Have you ever been in love? I'm in love."
"Since when?"
"This morning. I feel restless and dizzy. I bet I won't get any sleep tonight."
"Sounds like indigestion."

DARLING (1965), John Schlesinger

"I always feel as if there's one more corner to turn, and I'll be there."
"And so you will."
"Then there'll be another."
"That's the attraction of corners."

TWO FOR THE ROAD (1967), Stanley Donen

"Just wish that you'd stop sniping."
"I haven't said a word!"
"Just because you use a silencer doesn't mean you're not a sniper."