Shoot the Piano Player (1960)

Nicole Berger: Thérèse Saroyan

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• Thérèse Saroyan : When you're lost in the night, you can't stop the shadows from closing in. It gets darker and darker. You feel trapped, you don't know what to do.

• Thérèse Saroyan : You know how a spider works on her prey? It is as if he were cutting me in two. As if the heart were one thing and the body another.

• Thérèse Saroyan : What's the matter? You're moody.

  Charlie Kohler : Nothing, nothing.

  Thérèse Saroyan : Yes, there is. In the car, you were very gay. Then you suddenly stopped talking, as if I had said something you didn't like.

  Charlie Kohler : No, it's not anything you said. I just stopped talking when I realized you were not listening.

• Charlie Kohler : I'm fed up, do you hear, fed up! This is not life for an artist! Of course, I'm not a real great artist, but people must believe in me in order that I may become one. Good God, is it asking too much?

  Thérèse Saroyan : If you think it doesn't try one's patience to live with you, you're mistaken! Ah, your conversation has really improved in a year! If people ask you what you think of Hemingway: "I hear he is a great collector of my recordings."