Blow-Up (1966)

David Hemmings: Thomas

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• Thomas : Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out.

• Thomas : She isn't my wife, really. We just have some kids. No, no kids, not even kids. Sometimes, though, it feels as if we had kids. She isn't beautiful, she's... easy to live with. No, she isn't. That's why I don't live with her.

• Thomas : I wish I had tons of money... Then I'd be free.

• Thomas : Don't let's spoil everything, we've only just met.

  Jane : No, we haven't met. You've never seen me.

• The Blonde : Couldn't you give us just a couple of minutes?

  Thomas : Couple of minutes? I haven't even got a couple of minutes to have my appendix out.

• Thomas : [seeing Verushka, the model, at a party the evening of the day she had just told the photographer that he'd better hurry because she had to catch a plane to Paris]  I thought you were supposed to be in Paris.

  Verushka : [taking a toke of her marijuana cigarette]  I *am* in Paris!

• Jane : What are you doing? Stop it! Stop it! Give me those pictures. You can't photograph people like that.

  Thomas : Who says I can't? I'm only doing my job. Some people are bullfighters, some people are politicians. I'm a photographer.

• Thomas : What do they call you in bed?

• Thomas : I want you to see the corpse. We've got to get a shot of it.

  Ron : I'm not a photographer.

  Thomas : I am!

• Thomas : Someone's been killed. I want you to see the corpse.

• Verushka : [long-legged model awaits]  Here I am.

  Thomas : Ready?

  Verushka : [foreign accent]  I've been ready for nearly an hour.

  Thomas : Good.

  Verushka : I'm catching a plane for Paris at eleven, so I can't...

  Thomas : Can't what?

  Verushka : It doesn't matter.

  Thomas : [regards her over ostrich feathers]  Who the hell were you with last night?

  [she smirks and moves on] 

• Patricia : I wonder why they shot him.

  Thomas : I didn't ask.

• Thomas : [as models rush up stairs]  Can you manage to make a cup of coffee between you?

  The Blonde : [halfway up, looking back]  I can make an Irish coffee if you'd like.

  [both girls giggle] 

• Thomas : [photographing model]  That's it. That's good. That's good. And the hair back. The hair back.

  [plants a kiss behind her ear, and she smiles] 

  Thomas : Come on, that's great! That's great! That's good. Good. Come on, more of that, more of that.

  [camera clicks profusely] 

• [last lines] 

  Ron : What did you see in that park?

  Thomas : Nothing... Ron.