The Green Room (1978)

Nathalie Baye: Cecilia Mandel

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• Julien Davenne : I thought you didn't want to seem anymore.

  Cecilia Mandel : No. I thought it was you who didn't want to see me.

• Cecilia Mandel : You weren't tempted to disobey the order?

  Julien Davenne : No, because I was raised to be obedient.

  Cecilia Mandel : I know about obedience.

• Cecilia Mandel : Our dead, our poor dead! They ask so little that they get even less.

• Julien Davenne : I don't like cemeteries anymore, they're cold prisons. They lock up the dead to get rid of them under the frozen earth.

  Cecilia Mandel : I don't agree. They're at home everywhere underground.

• Julien Davenne : I can't say where I'm taking you. Do you trust me?

  Cecilia Mandel : Of course, I trust you; but, I still find you very mysterious. Aren't you going to ask me to put on a blindfold?

• Cecilia Mandel : If you can wait a moment, the lesson is nearly over.

  Julien Davenne : Yes, this is the first time I've really come to your house. I wonder if I shouldn't sign up for piano lessons.

  Cecilia Mandel : Piano lessons?

  Julien Davenne : Yes. If I were your student, I'd have some power over you.

  Cecilia Mandel : Power over me?

  Julien Davenne : Yes.

  Cecilia Mandel : You, you want to have power over me?

• Cecilia Mandel : Our past doesn't belong to us.

• Cecilia Mandel : There was the cemetery where we met so often. Did you ever wonder what tomb I was visiting?

  Julien Davenne : Yes, but it was like opening a letter sent to someone else.

• Cecilia Mandel : Farewell, the charm is broken.

• Cecilia Mandel : I know it isn't easy to live with the living, it's easier with the dead. We enclose them in transparent walls of imagination.

• Cecilia Mandel : I love you, but, I know that for you to love me, I should be dead.