Quotes from Charlotte Gainsbourg movies and TV shows

She: Oak trees grow to be hundreds of years old. They only have to produce one single tree every hundred years in order to propagate. May sound banal to you but it was a big thing for me to realise that when I was up here with Nic. The acorns fell on the roof vent. They kept falling and falling. And die and die. And I understood that everything that used to be beautiful about Eden was perhaps hideous. Now I could hear what I couldn't hear before. The cry of all the things that are to die.

He: I love you.
She: You don't.
He: I do.
She: I don't believe you. I don't believe you! I don't fucking believe you.

She: Nature is Satan's church.

She: A crying woman is a scheming woman.

Justine: But I tried, Claire.
Claire: You did. I know you did.

Justine: You want to meet on the terrace, and sip wine, the three of us?
Claire: It would make me happy.
Justine: Do you know what I think of your plan?
Claire: No. I was hoping that you might like it.
Justine: I think it's a piece of shit.
Claire: Please, Justine. I just want it to be nice.
Justine: Nice? Why don't we meet on the fucking toilet?
Claire: Fine, then - let's not.
Justine: You're damn right let's not.
Claire: I really hate you sometimes.

Seligman: Love is blind.
Joe: No, no, no. It's worse. Love distort things. Or even worse, love is something you never asked for. The erotic was something that I ask for or even demanded of men. But this idiotic love... I felt humiliated by it. And all the dishonesty that follows.
Joe: The erotic is about saying yes. Love appeals to lowest instincts, wrapped up in lies. How do you say yes when you mean no? And vice-versa. I'm ashamed of what I became. But it was beyond my control.

Joe: Basically, we're all waiting for permission to die.

Joe: It's my own fault. I'm just a bad human being.
Seligman: I've never met a "bad human being."
Joe: Well, you have now.

Seligman: I'm Seligman.
Joe: What a fucking ridiculous name.

Joe: Perhaps the only difference between me and other people... was that I've always demanded more from the sunset.

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Joe: The human qualities can be expressed in one word: hypocrisy.

Joe: Who perhaps is happy when all is said and done.

Joe: I seem to remember that the systematic approach to the crucifixion is of a violent and not to say sadistic nature.
Seligman: Oh yes, the passion of Christ is full of systematic violence... The Via Dolorosa, the nine stations of the cross and the 39 lashes.

Joe: The secret ingredient for sex is love.

Joe: We elevate those who say right but mean wrong, and mock those who say wrong but mean right.

Joe: It's said to be difficult to take someone's life. I would've said that it's more difficult not to. For a human being, killing is the most natural thing in the world. We're created for it.

Joe: Even though only one in a million, as my dubious therapist said, succeed in mentally, bodily, and in her heart ridding herself of her sexuality, this is now my goal.
Seligman: But is that a life worth living?
Joe: It's the only way I can live it. I will stand up against all odds, just like a deformed tree on a hill. I will muster all my stubbornness, my strength, my masculine aggression.

Joe: How do you keep a wave upon the sand?

Alice: Ni le début d'abus.