"Traumatized Yacht Owner: [to Happy Go-Lucky Guy] Quit... quit... you should quit... YOU should quit... you should... you should... You should- You should quit traumatizing women with sexual intercourse... I should know... I'm a medical doctor... I own a mansion and a yacht... You should quit traumatizing women with sexual intercourse... I should know... I'm a medical doctor..."

"Old Man Recording Thoughts: When young, we mourn for one woman... as we grow old, for women in general. The tragedy of life is that man is never free yet strives for what he can never be. The thing most feared in secret always happens. My life, my loves, where are they now? But the more the pain grows, the more this instinct for life somehow asserts itself. The necessary beauty in life is in giving yourself to it completely. Only later will it clarify itself and become coherent."

"I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it."

"John Slate - Conspiracy-A-Go-Go author"

"I've had a total re-calibration of my mind, you know. I mean, it's like, I've been banging my head against this 19th century type, um, what? Thought mode? Construct? Human construct? Well, the wall doesn't exist. It's not there, you know. I mean, they tell you, look for the light at the end of the tunnel. Well, there is no tunnel. There's just no structure. The underlying order is chaos."

"To me, my thing is, a video image is much more powerful and useful than an actual event. Like back when I used to go out, when I was last out, I was walking down the street and this guy, that came barreling out of a bar, fell right in front of me, and he had a knife right in his back, landed right on the ground and... Well, I have no reference to it now. I can't put it on pause. I can't put it on slow mo and see all the little details. And the blood, it was all wrong. It didn't look like blood. The hue was off. I couldn't adjust the hue. I was seeing it for real, but it just wasn't right. And I didn't even see the knife impact on the body. I missed that part."

"Dostoyevsky Wannabe: Who's ever written a great work about the immense effort required in order not to create?"

"Louis Mackey - Old anarchist"

"Teresa Taylor - Pap smear pusher"

"Rudy Basquez - Taxicab driver"

"Mila Parély - Geneviève de Marras"

"Anne Mayen - Jackie"

"Julien Carette - Marceau"

"Jean Renoir - Octave"

"Paulette Dubost - Lisette"

"Marcel Dalio - Robert de la Cheyniest"

"Gaston Modot - Edouard Schumacher"

"Roland Toutain - André Jurieux"

"That's also part of the times, today everyone lies."

"Throughout the entire last part of The Rules of the Game the camera acts like an invisible guest wandering about the salon and the corridors with a certain curiosity, but without any more advantage than its invisibility. The camera is not noticeably any more mobile than a man would be (if one grants that people run about quite a bit in this château). And the camera even gets trapped in a corner, where it is forced to watch the action from a fixed position, unable to move without revealing its presence and inhibiting the protagonists. This sort of personification of the camera accounts for the extraordinary quality of this long sequence. It is not striking because of the script or the acting, but as a result of Renoir’s half amused, half anxious way of observing the action.No one has grasped the true nature of the screen better than Renoir; no one has successfully rid it of the equivocal analogies with painting and the theater. Plastically the screen is most often made to conform to the limits of a canvas, and dramatically it is modeled after the stage. With these two traditional references in mind, directors tend to conceive their images as boxed within a rectangle as do the painter and the stage director. Renoir on the other hand, understands that the screen is not a simple rectangle but rather the homothetic surface of the viewfinder of his camera. It is the very opposite of a frame. The screen is a mask whose function is no less to hide reality than to reveal it."

"I wanted to depict a society dancing on a volcano."

"You have to understand, it's the plight of all heroes today. In the air, they're terrific. But when they come back to earth, they're weak, poor, and helpless."

"Nora Gregor - Christine de la Cheyniest"

"The awful thing about life is this: Everybody has their reasons."

"Pierre Magnier - The General"

"[to Schumacher] I have no choice but to dismiss you. It breaks my heart, but I can't expose my guests to your firearms. It may be wrong of them, but they value their lives."

"Friendship with a man? That's asking for moonlight at midday."

"A laughing woman is disarmed, you can do what you like."

"Excuse me. You know you're no fool; you're a poet, a dangerous poet."

"You tried to better me by making me a servant. I'll never forget it."

"Telling lies is such a heavy weight to bear."

"Love, as it exists in society, is merely the mingling of two whims and the contact of two skins."

"Vanessa Kirby as Joanna"

"Will Merrick as Jay"

"Lisa Eichhorn as Mary's Mother, Jean"

"Lydia Wilson as Kit Kat"

"Richard Cordery as Uncle Desmond"

"Joshua McGuire as Rory"

"Margot Robbie as Charlotte"

"Tom Hollander as Harry"

"Lindsay Duncan as Mum"

"Tom Hughes| as Jimmy Kincade"

"How long will I love you? As long as stars are above you And longer if I can…"

"How long will I want you? As long as you want me to And longer by far…"