Tár

"Don't be so eager to be offended. The narcissism of small differences leads to the most boring kind of conformity."

"You want to dance the mask, you must service the composer. You gotta sublimate yourself, your ego, and, yes, your identity. You must, in fact, stand in front of the public and God and obliterate yourself."

"The problem with enrolling yourself as an ultrasonic epistemic dissident is that if Bach's talent can be reduced to his gender, birth country, religion, sexuality, and so on, then so can yours. Now, some day, Max, when you go out into the world, and you guest conduct for a major or minor orchestra, you may notice that the players have more than light bulbs and music on their stands. They will also have been handed rating sheets - the purpose of which is to rate you. Now, what kind of criteria would you hope that they use to do this? Your score reading and stick technique, or something else?"

"There's no glory for a robot, Eliot. Do your own thing!"

"It's my score! You fucking, little nothing!"

"It is always the question that involves the listener, never the answer."

"Eliot Kaplan: The last thing I need is to be buttonholed in here by someone exactly like me."

"Cate Blanchett - Lydia Tár"

"Nina Hoss - Sharon Goodnow"

"Noémie Merlant - Francesca Lentini"

"Sophie Kauer - Olga Metkina"

"Julian Glover - Andris Davis"

"Allan Corduner - Sebastian Brix"

"Mark Strong - Eliot Kaplan"

"Sylvia Flote - Krista Taylo"

"Adam Gopnik - himself"

"Mila Bogojevic - Petra"

"Zethphan Smith-Gneist - Max"

"Lee Sellars - Tony Tarr"

"Sydney Lemmon - Whitney Reese"