Beginners (2010)

Mélanie Laurent: Anna

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• Anna : Why do you leave everyone? Why did you let me go?

  Oliver : Maybe because I... I don't really believe that it's gonna work, and then I make sure that it doesn't work.

• Anna : You can ask me anything.

  Oliver : Anything? What's that there?

  Anna : That's a tree.

  Oliver : Yeah.

  Anna : And Cars.

  Oliver : Uh-huh.

  Anna : Another building like this one.

  Oliver : Right.

  Anna : People in the building like us. Half of them think things will never work out. The other half believe in magic. It's like a war between them.

  Oliver : How do you know so much about people?

  Anna : Oh. Well, you have to learn how to read their faces.

• Anna : I used to love hotels. Now I'm always in a new apartment or in another hotel somewhere.

  Oliver : How do you keep hold of friends? Or boyfriends?

  Anna : Makes it very easy to end up alone. To leave people.

  Oliver : You can stay in the same place and still find ways to leave people.

• Anna : [writes down]  Why are you at a party if you're sad?

• Anna : You've lost so much. What if I can't make up for that?

• Anna : Well, my name is Anna. You're worried you can't trust me because you don't know who I am. I get it. That makes sense to me.

• Oliver : Well, I'm gonna have to kill you now.

  Anna : Hm... why?

  Oliver : Because I'm falling in love with you.

• Anna : You look so unhappy.

  Oliver : Well are you happy? Here?

  Anna : Maybe I'm not perfect at it. I don't really know what I'm doing, but I want to be here.