The Boys Are Back (2009)

Clive Owen: Joe Warr

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• Artie : Daddy.

  Joe Warr : What is it, sweet heart?

  Artie : I want to die.

  Joe Warr : Do you? Why?

  Artie : So I can be with mommy.

  Artie : Don't worry daddy, I'll stay down here with you for now.

  Joe Warr : Thanks.

• Katy : Will you do one more thing for me, Joe?

  Joe Warr : Anything.

  Katy : Buy that convertible.

• Joe Warr : I run a pretty loose ship. Basically I've found that the more rules there are, the more crimes are created. So, fewer rules. Fewer, but bigger rules. No interrupting adults...

  Harry : Why not?

• Joe Warr : I *did* love your mother very much, you know.

  Harry : Then why did you leave?

  Joe Warr : Married couples in my mother and father's generation stayed together for the sake of the children. We divorced for the same reason.

  Harry : So you divorced for my sake?

• [first lines] 

  Joe Warr : [narrating]  I don't know whether you've ever seen a map of a person's mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting. But catch them trying to draw a map of a child's mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time. There is zig-zag lines on it, just like your temperature on a card. And these are probably roads in the island, for the Neverland is always, more or less, an island.

• Harry : [opening the car door]  Wow, it's boiling!

  Joe Warr : Oh, this is nothing. It's not proper summer here until the steering wheel's too hot to hold.

• Joe Warr : Seems like the right thing to do. Maybe.

  Laura : What do you want me to say?

  Joe Warr : Personally, I find nothing is often best.