The Souvenir (2019)

Tom Burke: Anthony

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• Anthony : We don't know what the inner machinations of their mind are, or their heart. We don't know. But that's what we want to know when we go and see a film. We don't wanna just see life played out as is. We wanna see life as it is experienced, within this soft machine, within this...

  Julie : But the life of Tony and his mother, they're the lives of real people. I'm not- I'm not making that up.

  Anthony : Why are they more real than me?

  Julie : They're not more real than you.

  Anthony : Am I more real than you?

  Julie : No. I think we're all equal in that. I think we're all as real as each other. There's no competition. It doesn't matter that they're not real people. I mean, I'm not trying to make a documentary. I'm just- you know, I'm making a feature film.

  Anthony : Now, are you sure?

  Julie : Yes, I am. I'm making a feature film.

• Anthony : I can't go into all this. It was an emergency.

  Julie : What fucking emergency?

  Anthony : If I hadn't done that on that day, I wouldn't be here now. I... That's all I can tell you.

  Julie : What's that supposed to mean? You can't say stuff like that and then not... I don't.. I appreciate there are some things you can't tell me.

  Anthony : Well, uh, you know, I appreciate there's things about me that you find unacceptable. There's things about you I find unacceptable. There's things about this conversation I find unacceptable. We're gonna have to meet somewhere.

• Julie : I think I'm quite average.

  Anthony : You're not average. You're lost. And you'll always be lost.

• Anthony : Stop inviting me to torture you.

• Anthony : You're not normal at all. You're a freak.

  Julie : Thank you. How am I a freak?

  Anthony : Your fragility.

  Julie : Is that a good thing?

  Anthony : I think you know.

• Anthony : You're not trying to document some received idea of - life up there, on the docks, the daily grind, huddled listening to the wireless?

  Julie : Well, I am, but I'm - creating something new with it.

• Anthony : Uh, I mean, you know, we can all be sincere. We can all be authentic. But, um, what's it all for?

• Julie : So what do you do?

  Anthony : I work for the Foreign Office.

  Julie : Is it very boring?

  Anthony : Incredibly.

• Anthony : I love pale skin.

  Julie : Why? Why?

  Anthony : 'Cause everyone's getting a tan nowadays.

• Anthony : I'm going to do a Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, wall of Jericho with your friends here.

• Anthony : You're a dark horse, Julie.

• Julie : You didn't think I would mind? Is that what you're saying?

  Anthony : No. No. I knew you'd mind. That's why I didn't tell you.

• Anthony : [Julie crying]  Please tell me what I've done. Please, because... This is punishing, seeing you like this and then not knowing why.

• Anthony : I'm fine.

  Julie : Good. I am as well.

  Anthony : I don't want to keep feeling I need to, um, illustrate that I'm fine.

  Julie : You don't have to. You don't have to put up a front or anything, ever, with me.

  Anthony : Good, 'cause I am fine. I might not look fine, but I am fine.

• Anthony : Don't be worthy. Be arrogant. It's much more sexy.

  Julie : Do you like arrogance?

  Anthony : I think it'll get you further.

  Julie : Because you *are* arrogant.

  Anthony : I know I'm arrogant.

  Julie : Do you find yourself sexy?

  Anthony : Yes, all the time.

• Anthony : You've got some preconceived idea about some Oxbridge version of a film director and it's all bollocks. You just need to get out there and start filming.

• Anthony : I know he's a cunt, but he's got a point.

  Julie : I liked him.

  Anthony : No, you didn't.

  Julie : I didn't, actually. No, I didn't.

• Julie : Are you gonna drink all that brandy?

  Anthony : Well, I'm not gonna just leave it there.