Goya's Ghosts (2006)

Stellan Skarsgård: Francisco Goya

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Quotes 

• [Goya is trying to see Inés] 

  Goya : I am painter to the king!

  Asylum Director : To which king? Do you know how many kings I have in here? I even have two Napoleons, and one of them is an Arab. The other one is 7'2" tall.

• Tomás Bilbatúa : Forgive me, Father Lorenzo, but um, have you ever been put to the... to the Question, yourself?

  Brother Lorenzo : Have I ever been?

  Tomás Bilbatúa : Yes. Have you ever been subjected to the Question?

  Brother Lorenzo : Of course not.

  Tomás Bilbatúa : Do you think that if you were, and they asked you to confess something grotesquely absurd... say... say you were told to confess that you're really a monkey.

  [laughter around the table] 

  Tomás Bilbatúa : You're sure that god would grant you the fortitude to deny it? Or would you rather confess to being a monkey? To avoid the pain.

  Goya : I know I would.

  Tomás Bilbatúa : I know you would. So would I.

  Tomás Bilbatúa : [to Lorenzo]  Would you?

  Goya : What is this Tomás, are you playing some sort of silly game with you guest? Nobody would ever ask Father Lorenzo to confess something so absurd.

  Tomás Bilbatúa : I would.

  [leaves the table] 

• Goya : Where is Ines?

  Brother Lorenzo : She is in very good hands?

  Goya : [going after Lorenzo with rage]  Tell me where she is!

• Inés : [model pointing at defaced portrait]  Why doesn't that painting have a face?

  Goya : Because he is a ghost.

  Inés : No, he is not.

  Goya : Have you ever seen a ghost?

  Inés : No. But I have seen a witch.

  Goya : Oh, did you?

  Inés : Yes, but she had a face.

  Goya : So what did she look like?

  Inés : She was... all bent and creepy, and she...

  [whispers:] 

  Inés : stank.

  [makes disparaging sound] 

  Goya : That's interesting, because the witch that I know, she's... she's young, very lovely, and she smells of jasmine.

  Inés : [smiles]  She does?

  Goya : She does. And I'm working on her portrait... right now.

  Inés : [smiles as it dawns on her what he means]  I'm no witch!

  Goya : [chuckles]  How do you know?

• Goya : You're crazy.

  Tomás Bilbatúa : Francisco, please, stay out of this.

  Goya : Let us go.

  Tomás Bilbatúa : You can go.

  Goya : What do you mean I can go? And Father Lorenzo?

  Tomás Bilbatúa : Did he let my daughter go?

  [to Lorenzo:] 

  Tomás Bilbatúa : Did you let my innocent daughter go?

  [to Francisco:] 

  Tomás Bilbatúa : Did he?