The Dreamers

"The first time I saw a movie at the cinématèque française I thought, "Only the French... only the French would house a cinema inside a palace."
"As we walked, we talked and talked and talked about politics, about movies, and about why the French could never come close to producing a good rock band."

"I entered this world on the Champs-Elysees, 1959. La trottoir du Champs Elysees. And do you know what my very first words were? New York Herald Tribune! New York Herald Tribune!"
"We accept you, one of us! One of us!"
"A revolution isn't a gala dinner. It cannot be created like a book, a drawing or a tapestry. It cannot unfold with such elegance, tranquility and delicacy. Or such sweetness, affability. Courtesy, restraint and generosity. A revolution is an uprising, a violent act by which one class overthrows another."
"It makes films like crimes, and directors like criminals."

"I can't stop you, I've got no arms."

"I was one of the insatiables. The ones you'd always find sitting closest to the screen. Why do we sit so close? Maybe it was because we wanted to receive the images first. When they were still new, still fresh. Before they cleared the hurdles of the rows behind us. Before they'd been relayed back from row to row, spectator to spectator; until worn out, secondhand, the size of a postage stamp, it returned to the projectionist's cabin. Maybe, too, the screen was really a screen. It screened us... from the world."
"I think you prefer when the world "together" means not "a million," but just two."