Documenteur (1981)

Mathieu Demy: Martin Cooper

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• Martin Cooper : I want you to buy me a fishing pole with a reel.

  Emilie Cooper : I thought fishing disgusted you.

  Martin Cooper : I'd like to be a fisherman who doesn't catch any fish.

• Martin Cooper : I'm afraid of critters. Not the ones we know, like snails, dogs, cats, or lions. Well, maybe lions a little bit, but the beasts that come out at night, the ones we don't know, the ones we never see. The ones that live in the dark. I'm afraid of the dark too. I'm afraid when I don't know what I'm afraid of.

• Emilie Cooper : Listen, give me your hand. We can play marbles, or have a bite to eat, or go out in the yard and skip around and dance the polka.

  Martin Cooper : I like it when we're sad and then we say we'll go outside and dance. Don't you?

• Martin Cooper : I love it when you laugh. Why don't you laugh more often.

  Emilie Cooper : Sometimes I forget.

• Martin Cooper : You remember that book about the owl?

  Emilie Cooper : Yes, I read it to you.

  Martin Cooper : He made tea out of his tears.

  Emilie Cooper : Yes.

  Martin Cooper : He'd calmly think about very sad things - and it would make him cry into his teapot. Sad things like...

  Emilie Cooper : Like a pencil too small to write with.

  Martin Cooper : Yes, and leftover oatmeal that's gone cold.

  Emilie Cooper : Or a letter written but never answered.

  Martin Cooper : Have you ever sent a letter and then it made you cry because it never got there?

  Emilie Cooper : Yes, because I never got an answer. The owl would also cry into his teapot over the words "never again."

• Martin Cooper : I don't want to sleep alone.

  Emilie Cooper : My bed is too small. You'll sleep much better alone in your new room.

  Martin Cooper : We could at least move my mattress by your bed.

  Emilie Cooper : No, we'll each sleep better in our own room. It's true. Give it a try. Go on. Sleep well, sweetie.