"Steven's mother: I still do not believe this. My own boy with a strange girl and not so thin, if you understand my meaning...The next thing you know, he goes to Vietnam...I do not understand, Father. I understand nothing anymore, nothing...Can you explain? Can anyone explain?"

"When a man says no to champagne, he says no to life."

"If you are really brave and lucky, I can make you very, very rich."

"What is there to be afraid of in this war? The war is a joke, a silly thing...I pay my players - cash - American. However, should you prefer German marks or perhaps Swiss francs, that of course can be arranged."

"Here's to Nick."

"[to Stanley] You wanna play games? All right, I'll play your fucking games."

"Okay. Okay!"

"[to Linda] I just wanted to say how sorry I am about Nick. And how, I know how much you loved him and I know that it will never be the same. I just wanted to tell you that."

"Amelia Warner - Simone"

"Billie Whitelaw - Madame LeClerc"

"Michael Caine - Dr. Royer-Collard"

"Joaquin Phoenix - Abbe du Coulmier"

"Kate Winslet - Madeleine LeClerc"

"Geoffrey Rush - Marquis de Sade"

"Meet the Marquis de Sade. The pleasure is all his."

"There are no bad words... only bad deeds."

"Your terrible secret revealed, you're a man after all."

"I so admire men with an appetite for...books."

"Tell him I'm no fool, a prison's still a prison, even with Chinese silks and chandeliers."

"If you're going to martyr yourself, do it for God, not a chambermaid."

"You prefer a book to your husband's company? Well no wonder, I'm only flesh and blood - that's no match for the printed page!"

"You know how I define idealism, Monsieur Delbenet? Youth's final luxury."

"You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?"

"Don't come any closer, Abbe, God's watching."

"If I wasn't such a bad woman on the page, I couldn't be such a good woman in life."

"Some things belong on paper, others in life. It's a blessed fool who can't tell the difference."

"My glorious prose filtered through the minds of the insane. Who knows, they might improve it."

"In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man."

"This monstrous God of yours? He strung up his son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he'd do to me."

"I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. We're all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet... I've been to hell, young man, you've only read about it."

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

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

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

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

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

"Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated."

"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 you, for your sake, let me write it down."

"I am not the first man God had asked to shed blood in his name. And I am not the last."

"You're not the Antichrist. You're only a malcontent who knows how to spell."

"Johnny Depp as J. M. Barrie"

"He just has to believe it! He imagines life as he wants to see, and he believes in it long enough and strong enough that it never ceases to be so ... ""

"Stop giving yourself so much credit. Peter is grieving. It has nothing to do with you."

"Unlock your imagination."

"How far can your imagination take you?"

"Where will your imagination take you?"

"Kate Winslet as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies"

"Dustin Hoffman as Charles Frohman"

"Julie Christie as Mrs. Emma du Maurier"

"Radha Mitchell as Mary Ansell Barrie"

"In 1982, a new troublemaker hit Garfield High... He was tough. He was wild. He was willing to fight. He was the new math teacher."