Summer Interlude (1951)

Stig Olin: Ballet Master

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• Ballet Master : You only see your life clearly once, when all protective walls have crumbled. You stand there, naked and cold, seeing yourself just the way you are. Once only.

• Ballet Master : We want to be happy, get something out of life. We have our memories, don't we? We want to start all over. All lies, Marie. Gibberish and nonsense. You dance. Period. That's your rule. Stick to it, or you'll get in trouble. Take a look in the mirror. You look ridiculous. So do I, for that matter.

• Marie : Yet there you sit in that clown costume you don't dare take off.

  Ballet Master : What about your own costume?

  Marie : It's true. It's like it's branded onto my body.

  Ballet Master : Think I don't understand, Marie? You don't dare take your makeup off, and you don't dare put it on. You don't dare leave, yet you don't dare stay.