"Michael Caine - Dr. Royer-Collard"

"Billie Whitelaw - Madame LeClerc"

"Amelia Warner - Simone"

"Listen to me Abbé, and listen well. I've stared into the face of evil and I've lived to tell the tale and now, I beg …"

"Suppose one of your precious inmates attempted to walk on water and drowned - would you comdemn the Bible? I think not."

"I didn't create this world of ours. I merely recorded it."

"Are your convictions so fragile they cannot stand in opposition to mine? Is your god so flimsy, so weak? For shame!"

"Ah, you've come to read my trousers."

"I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. We're all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade…"

"You've already stolen my heart... as well as a more prominent organ, south of the Equator."