Q U O T E S

[constructum]

Miles: If you have a few moments, Mr. Cobb has a job offer he'd like to discuss with you.
Ariadne: Like a work placement?
Cobb: Not exactly

                                 
Cobb: A test.
Ariadne: Aren't you going to tell me anything?
Cobb: Before I describe the job, I have to know you could do it.
Ariadne: Why?
Cobb: It's not, strictly speaking, legal


Cobb: They say we only use a fraction of our brain's true potential. Now, that's when we're awake. When we're asleep, our mind can build almost anything.
Ariadne: Such as?
Cobb: Well, imagine you're designing a building, all right? You consciously create each aspect, but sometimes it feels like it's almost creating itself, if you know what I mean.
Ariadne: Yeah. Like I'm discovering it.
Cobb: Genuine inspiration, right? Now in a dream, our mind continually does this. We creat and perceive our world simultaneously and our mind does this so well that we don't even know it's happening. That allows us to get right in the middle of that process.
Ariadne: How?
Cobb: By taking over the creative part. Now this is where I need you. You create the world of the dream. You bring the subject into that dream and they fill it with their subconscious.


Cobb: Well dreams, they feel real while we're in them, right? It's only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange. Let me ask you a question, you...you never really remember the beginning of a dream, do you? You always wind up right in the middle of what's going on.
Ariadne: I guess, yeah.
Cobb: So how did we end up here?
Ariadne: Well, we just came from the...eh...
Cobb: Think about it Ariadne, how did you get here? Where are you right now?
Ariadne: We're dreaming?!


Ariadne: Five minutes? What...we were talking like for at least an hour.
Cobb: In a dream your mind functions more quickly. Therefore, time seems to feel more slow.
Arthur: Five minutes in the real world gives you an hour in the dream world.


Ariadne: Who are the people?
Cobb: They are projections of my subconscious.
Ariadne: Yours?
Cobb: Yes. Remember you are the dreamer you build this world. I am the subject my mind populates it. You can literally talk to my subconscious, that's one of the ways extract information from the subject.
Ariadne: What else do you do?
Cobb: By creating something secure like a...lika a bank vault or a jail. The mind automatically fills it with information it's trying to protect.
Ariadne: Then you break in and steal it.


Ariadne: My questions is what happens when you start messing with the physics of it?
[badass ariadne defying the laws of physics here]
Ariadne: Something isn't it?
Cobb: Yes it is.


Ariadne: Why are they all looking at me?
Cobb: Cause my subconscious feels that someone else is creating this world. The more you change things, the quicker the projections start to converge on you.
Ariadne: Converge?
Cobb: They sense the foreign nature of the dreamer. They attack like white blood cells fighting an infection.
Ariadne: They're going to attack us?
Cobb: No. Just you.


Ariadne: Mind telling your subconscious to take it easy.
Cobb: It's my subconscious. Remember, I can't control it.


Cobb: I know this bridge. This place is real isn't it?
Ariadne: Yeah. I cross it everyday to get to the college.
Cobb: Never recreate places from your memory. Always imagine new places.
Ariadne: You gotta draw from stuff you know, right?
Cobb: Only use details. A...a...a street lamp or a phone booth. Never entire areas.
Ariadne: Why not?
Cobb: Because building a dream from your memory is the easiest way to lose your grasp on what's real and what isn't real.
Ariadne: Is that what happened to you?


Ariadne: Wake me up, Cobb.
Cobb: Mal, No!
Ariadne: Wake me up!


Ariadne: That's some subconscious you've got on you Cobb. She's a real charmer.
Arthur: Oh...I see you met Mrs Cobb.


Ariadne: I...I don't know if you can't see what's going on or if you just don't want to, but Cobb has some serious problems that he's trying to bury down there. And I'm not about to just open my mind to someone like that!


Arthur: Cobb said you'd be back.
Ariadne: I tried not to come, but...
Arthur: But there's nothing quite like it.
Ariadne: It's just pure creation.


Ariadne: My subconscious seems polite enough.
Arthur: Well wait, it'll turn ugly. No one wants to feel someone else messing around in their mind.


Ariadne: Cobb can't build anymore can he?
Arthur: Well I don't know if he can't, but he won't. He thinks it's safer if he doesn't know the layouts.
Ariadne: Why?
Arthur: He won't tell me, but I think it's Mal.
Ariadne: His ex-wife?
Arthur: No, not his ex.
Ariadne: They're still together?
Arthur: No. She...she's dead. What you see in there is just his projection.
Ariadne: What was she like in real life?
Arthur: She was lovely.


Ariadne: An elegant solution for keeping track of reality. Was it your idea?
Cobb: No. It was uh.. it was Mal's actually. This...this one was hers, she'd spin it and in the dream it would never topple. Just uh...spin and spin.


Cobb: Don't show me specifics. Only the dreamer should know the layout.
Ariadne: Why is that so important?
Cobb: In case one of us brings in our projections. We don't want them knowing the details of the maze.
Ariadne: You mean in case you bring Mal in. You can't keep her out can you?
Cobb: Right.
Ariadne: You can't build because if you know the maze then she knows it. She'd sabotage the whole operation. Cobb, do the others know?
Cobb: No, they don't.
Ariadne: You gotta warn them if this is getting worse.
Cobb: No one said it's getting worse. I need to get home. That's all I care about right now.
Ariadne: Why can't you go home?
Cobb: Because they think I killed her. Thank you.


Cobb: This has nothing do with you.
Ariadne: This has everything to do with me. You've asked me to share dreams with you.
Cobb: Not these. These are my dreams.


Ariadne: Why do you do this to yourself?
Cobb: It's the only way I can still dream.
Ariadne: Why is it so important do dream?
Cobb: In my dreams we're still together.


Ariadne: These aren't just dreams. These are memories and you said never to use memories.
Cobb: I know I did.
Ariadne: You're trying to keep her alive. You can't let her go.
Cobb: You don't understand, these are moments I regret. They're memories that I have to change.
Ariadne: Do you think you can just build a prison of memories to lock her in? Do you really think that that's going to contain her?


Ariadne: You might have the rest of the team convinced to carry on with this job bu they don't know the truth.
Cobb: The truth, what truth?
Ariadne: The truth that any minute you might bring a freight train through the wall, the truth that Mal is bursting through your subconscious and the truth that as we go deeper into Fischer we're also going deeper into you. And I'm not sure we're gonna like what we find.


Cobb: She had herself declared sane by three different psychiatrists that made it impossible for me to try and explain the nature of her madness. So I ran. I left my children behind and I've been trying to buy my way back ever since.
Ariadne: Your guilt defines her. It's what powers her. You are not responsible for the idea that destroyed her. And if we are going to succeed in this you have to forgive yourself and you're going to have to confront her. But you don't have to do that alone.


Ariadne: I'm doing it for the others, because they have no idea the risk they've taken coming down here with you.


Ariadne: Who or what is Mr Charles?
Arthur: It's a gambit designed to turn Fischer against his own subconscious.
Ariadne: Why don't you approve?
Arthur: Cause it involves telling the mark that he's dreaming. Which involves attracting a lot of attention to us.
Ariadne: Didn't Cobb say never to do that?
Arthur: Mmmm. So now you've noticed how much time Cobb spends doing things he says never to do.


Ariadne: What's happening?
Arthur: Cobb's drawing Fischer attention to the strangeness of the dream. Which is making his subconscious look for the dreamer. For me. Quick, give me a kiss.
[Hello, cute guys asking for a kiss. OF COURSE SHE IS GOING TO DO THIS! ]
Ariadne: They're still looking at us.
Arthur: Yeah, it was worth a shot. We should probably get out of here.


Ariadne: So, do you use a timer?
Arthur: No, I have to judge it for myself. While you're all asleep in five-two-eight, I wait for Yusuf's kick.
Ariadne: Well, how will you know?
Arthur: Cause music warns me and then when the van hits the barrier of the bridge that should be unmistakable, so we get a nice synchronized kick. If it's too soon we won't get pulled out, if it's to late I won't be able to drop us.
Ariadne: Well, why not?
Arthur: Because the van will be in free fall. Can't drop you without gravity.


Ariadne: Wait, whose subconscious are we going into exactly?
Cobb: We're going into Fischer's. I told him it was Browning so he could be a part of our team.


Ariadne: Cobb? Cobb? What's down there?
Cobb: Well, the truth we want Fischer to learn.
Ariadne: I mean wants down there for you?


Ariadne: Are those projections part of his subconscious?
Cobb: Yes.
Ariadne: Are you destroying those parts of his mind?
Cobb: No...no, they're just projections.


Ariadne: Cobb, no. She...she is not real.
Cobb: How do you know that?
Ariadne: She is just a projection. Fischer...Fischer is real!


Ariadne: No, there's still another way. We just have to follow Fischer down there.
Eames: Don't have time.
Ariadne: No. There...there will be enough time down there. And we will find him, okay. As...as soon as Arthur's music kicks in just use the defibrillator to revive him. We can give him his...his own kick down below. Look, you get him in there, as soon as music ends we blow up the hospital and we all ride the kick back up the layers.
Eames: Well, it's worth a shot.


Ariadne: You reconstructed all of this from memory?
Cobb: Like I told you we had lots of time.


Ariadne: You can't stay here to be with her.
Cobb: I'm not. Saito's dead by now, that means he's down here somewhere. It means I have to find him. I can't stay with her anymore because she doesn't exist.


Ariadne: Don't lose yourself. Find Saito and bring him back.
Cobb: I will!


Arthur: What happened?
Ariadne: Cobb stayed.
Arthur: To be with Mal?
Ariadne: No, to find Saito.
Arthur: He'll be lost.
Ariadne: No, he'll be all right.