"Compared to other kids, I haven't had that many hardships... not really. Shit's... Stuff's happened, sure, but stuff always happens right? But the real challenge of my life, the real hardship is me. It's always been me."

"The best thing about now, is that there's another one tomorrow."

"Just when you think it can't get any worse, you run out of cigarettes."

"Kyle Chandler – Harge Aird"

"Nik Pajic – Phil McElroy"

"Kevin Crowley – Fred Haymes"

"Carrie Brownstein – Genevieve Cantrell"

"Cory Michael Smith – Tommy Tucker"

"John Magaro – Dannie McElroy"

"Jake Lacy – Richard Semco"

"Sarah Paulson – Abby Gerhard"

"Rooney Mara – Therese Belivet"

"Cate Blanchett – Carol Aird"

"To date, a queer-themed movie has still never won Best Picture, and those that do receive any kind of recognition prominently feature queer suffering ... The reason that Carol is unique and extraordinary is likewise the exact reason that the Academy didn’t deem it Best Picture-worthy ... The Price Of Salt was a landmark work of LGBT fiction, not just because it was published in 1952 (a time many Americans were unaware lesbians even existed) but because it didn’t punish its star-crossed lovers for their desires ... [the novel] leaves the door open for a happy ending ... What makes stories like the romance portrayed in Carol isn’t the ecstasy of queer agony but that there were real women like Carol Aird and Therese Belivet."

"[Carol] seamlessly evokes the period by paying homage to the great photography of the time. It also creates its own unique cinematic language and pulls the viewer deeper and deeper into a world where something as simple as love comes at a staggering cost. Its delicate and precise exploration of emotion through color and light led us to discuss what it meant to achieve mastery of our craft. [Lachman] is, for us, a master and [Carol] is a masterpiece"

"Haynes sets the tone with a brilliant early sequence set in a Manhattan department store just before Christmas. We are in Eisenhower-era America, a time of new affluence and opportunity. This, though, is the Cold War era, too. The irony, very deliberately accentuated by the film-makers, is that US society is as rigidly conformist in its own way as the communist world. "Compliments of the season from the management," the shop workers are told as they are all given identical Santa hats just as the Christmas rush is about to begin. Little details – the near-identical clothes of the women shopping, the Big Brother-style tannoy voice telling customers what to buy – hint at how rigidly behaviour is controlled."

"In bringing this book [The Price of Salt ] to the screen in his gorgeous new movie "Carol," Todd Haynes has, as filmmakers will, changed a few details, characters and plot points. (Therese is now an aspiring photographer, though still temporarily employed at the doll counter of a department store.) But Mr. Haynes and the screenwriter, Phyllis Nagy, have also done something more radical. In [Patricia] Highsmith's prose, desire is a one-way street. For Mr. Haynes, it's a two-way mirror. At once ardent and analytical, cerebral and swooning, "Carol" is a study in human magnetism, in the physics and optics of eros. With sparse dialogue and restrained drama, the film is a symphony of angles and glances, of colors and shadows. It gives emotional and philosophical weight to what might be a perfectly banal question: What do these women see each in each other?"

"I never made you — I never asked you for anything. Maybe that's the problem. [to Richard as they break up]"

"[calls Carol on the phone] Hello? Carol? [Carol remains silent, struggling with emotions, then hangs up] I miss you. I miss you."

"I just take everything and I don't know anything. And I don't know what I want. How could I when all I ever do is say "Yes" to everything?"

"I'm no martyr. I have no clue what is best for me. But I do know, and I feel it in my bones, what is best for my daughter. Now, I want visits with her, Harge. I don't care if they're supervised. I just want them to be regular. [puts on coat, preparing to leave attorney's office] There was a time when I would have done almost anything. I would have locked myself away to keep Rindy with me. What use am I to her, to us, if I'm living against my own grain?"

"Now what happened with Therese — I wanted. And I will not deny it."

"Please believe that I would do anything to see you happy. So, I do the only thing I can — I release you. [letter to Therese VO]"

"I took what you gave willingly. It's not your fault, Therese."

"My angel. Flung out of space. [to Therese when they pause to look at each other during sex for the first time]"

"I never looked like that. [to Therese, admiring her nude body]"

"Help is only 140 million miles away."

"Nick Mohammed - Tim Grimes"

"Naomi Scott - Ryoko"

"Chen Shu - Zhu Tao"

"Eddy Ko - Guo Ming"

"Kristen Wiig - Annie Montrose"

"Benedict Wong - Bruce Ng"

"Donald Glover - Rich Purnell"

"Jeff Daniels - Theodore "Teddy" Sanders"

"Sean Bean - Mitch Henderson"

"Mackenzie Davis - Mindy Park"