Crash (1996)
James Spader: James Ballard
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[Last lines]
James Ballard : Katherine, are you all right?
Catherine Ballard : James. I don't know.
James Ballard : Are you Hurt?
Catherine Ballard : I think I'm all right...
[James starts groping and kissing her]
Catherine Ballard : ... I think I'm all right.
James Ballard : Maybe the next time, darling. Maybe the next time.
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James Ballard : You should've gone to the funeral.
Catherine Ballard : I wish I had. They bury the dead so quickly. They should leave them lying around for months.
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Vaughan : I've always wanted to drive a crashed car.
James Ballard : You could get your wish at any moment.
Vaughan : No, I mean a crashed car with a history. Camus' Facel Vega, Nathaniel West's station wagon, Grace Kelly's Rover 3500. Just fix it enough to get it rolling. Don't clean it, don't touch anything else.
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James Ballard : Do you see Kennedy's assassination as a special kind of car crash?
Vaughan : The case could be made.
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James Ballard : After being bombarded endlessly by road safety propaganda, almost a relief to have found myself in an actual accident.
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James Ballard : You had sex with all those men in cars? Only in cars?
Helen Remington : Yes. I didn't plan it that way.
James Ballard : Did you fantasize that Vaughan was photographing all these sex acts as though they were traffic accidents?
Helen Remington : Yes. They felt like traffic accidents.
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James Ballard : I'm beginning to feel like a potted plant.
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[Ballard is giving Helen a lift; she's wearing a white coat]
James Ballard : Where can I take you?
Helen Remington : To the airport.
James Ballard : You're not leaving?
Helen Remington : No, although not soon enough for some people. A death in the doctor's family makes patients uneasy.
James Ballard : [smiling] I take it you're not wearing white to reassure them.
Helen Remington : [unsmiling] I'll wear a fucking kimono if I feel like it.