Boychoir (2014)

Dustin Hoffman: Carvelle

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Quotes 

• Master Carvelle : Your clock is ticking kid.

  Stet : Well your clock is ticking too old man.

• Stet : I hate Handel.

  Master Carvelle : Handel hated singers too.

• Master Carvelle : Hmm... Odessa. I remember. You walked out on me. That was a first.

• Master Carvelle : This is a community of people feeling the same thing. Most of them, strangers. But you are uniting them. You are giving them your voice. And that's as spiritual as it gets.

• Master Carvelle : This is very simple Mr. Owens. I continue your son's instruction and you secret remains just that.

• Master Carvelle : And now gentlemen, the note on the page. The high D.

  [Boys attempt it] 

  Master Carvelle : Not even close, but whoever hits it first sings lead treble in New York.

• Master Carvelle : We all think we know these boys, what goes on with them, but we don't. We don't know a damn thing. We have forgotten what it was like to be them.

• Master Carvelle : This is about music. It's about you. It's fifty minutes of your life, and I want you to celebrate yourself.

• Carvelle : [berating Stet]  How Dare You Squander Your Gift