Inception 2010

Cobb: What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient... highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain its almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed - fully understood - that sticks; right in there somewhere.

Ariadne: Whats happening?Arthur: Your subconscious is looking for the dreamer; me. Quick, give me a kiss.Ariadne: [She kisses him and then looks around]Ariadne: Theyre still looking at us.Arthur: Yeah, it was worth a shot.

— Inception 2010 art

[repeated lines]Cobb: Youre waiting for a train. A train thatll take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you. But you cant know for sure. Yet it doesnt matter. Now, tell me why?Mal: Because youll be together!

— Inception 2010 hope

Arthur: It would have to be a 747.Cobb: Why is that?Arthur: Because in a 747, the pilots up top, and the first class cabins in the nose, so no one would walk through. But youd have to buy out the entire cabin. And the first class flight attendant...Saito: I bought the airline.[Everybody turns and stares at him. Saito just shrugs]Saito: It seemed neater.

— Inception 2010 art

Saito: Dont you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!

— Inception 2010 faith

Cobb: She locked away a secret, deep inside herself, something she once knew to be true... but chose to forget.

— Inception 2010 self

Cobb: I need to get home. Thats all I care about right now.Ariadne: Why cant you go home?Cobb: Because they think I killed her.Ariadne: [silence]Cobb: Thank you.Ariadne: For what?Cobb: For not asking whether I did.

— Inception 2010 silence

Cobb: They say we only use a fraction of our brains true potential. Now thats when were awake. When were asleep, we can do almost anything.

— Inception 2010 action

Saito: Have you come to kill me? Ive been waiting for someone...Cobb: Someone from a half remembered dream.Saito: Cobb? Impossible. We were young men together. Im an old man.Cobb: Filled with regret...Saito: Waiting to die alone...Cobb: Ive come back for you... to remind you of something. Something you once knew...[the top spins without end]Cobb: That this world is not real.Saito: To convince me to honor our arrangement.Cobb: To take a leap of faith, yes. Come back... so we can be young men together again. Come back with me...[Saito reaches for the gun]Cobb: Come back...

— Inception 2010 faith

Cobb: Inception. Now, before you bother telling me its impossible...Eames: No, its perfectly possible. Its just bloody difficult.

— Inception 2010 you

Cobb: What do you want?Saito: Inception. Is it possible?Arthur: Of course not.Saito: If you can steal an idea, why cant you plant one there instead?Arthur: Okay, this is me, planting an idea in your mind. I say: dont think about elephants. What are you thinking about?Saito: Elephants?Arthur: Right, but its not your idea. The dreamer can always remember the genesis of the idea. True inspiration is impossible to fake.Cobb: No, its not.

— Inception 2010 inspiration

Cobb: [from trailer] Dreams feel real while were in them. Its only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

— Inception 2010 dreams

Mal: Wed be together forever. You promised me.Cobb: I know. But we cant. And Im sorry.Mal: You remember when you asked me to marry you? You said you dreamt that wed grow old together.Cobb: But we did. We did. You dont remember?... I miss you more than I can bear, but... we had our time together. And I have to let go... I have to let you go.

— Inception 2010 time

Cobb: Im going to improvise. Listen, theres something you should know about me... about inception. An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.

— Inception 2010 you

Arthur: Eames, I am impressed.Eames: Your condescension, as always, is much appreciated, Arthur, thank you.

— Inception 2010 art

Cobb: I cant stay with her anymore because she doesnt exist.Mal: Im the only thing you do believe in anymore.Cobb: I wish. I wish more than anything. But I cant imagine you with all your complexity, all you perfection, all your imperfection. Look at you. You are just a shade of my real wife. Youre the best I can do; but Im sorry, you are just not good enough.

— Inception 2010 believe

Arthur: So, once weve made the plant, how do we go out? Hope you have something more elegant in mind than shooting me in the head?Cobb: A kick.Ariadne: Whats a kick?Eames: This, Ariadne, would be a kick[kicks the leg of the chair Arthurs swinging at]Arthur: [finds his balance and glares at Eames]

— Inception 2010 hope

Mal: Ill tell you a riddle. Youre waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you dont know for sure. But it doesnt matter. How can it not matter to you where that train will take you?

— Inception 2010 hope

Cobb: [notices that hes being followed] That price on my head, was that dead or alive?Eames: Not sure. See if he starts shooting.

— Inception 2010 art

Eames: If we are gonna perform Inception then we need imagination.

— Inception 2010 imagination

Ariadne: Why are they all looking at me?Cobb: Because 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: Its the foreign nature of the dreamer. They attack like white blood cells fighting an infection.Ariadne: Theyre going to attack us?Cobb: No. Just you.

— Inception 2010 art

Yusuf: Brain function in the dream will be about twenty times to normal. When you enter a dream within that dream, the effect is compounded: its three dreams, thats ten hours times twen...Eames: Im sorry, uh, maths was never my strong subject. How much time is that?Cobb: Its a week the first level down. Six months the second level down, and... the third level...Ariadne: ...is ten years! Who would wanna be stuck in a dream for ten years?Yusuf: Depends on the dream.

— Inception 2010 dreams

Yusuf: [after surviving a roll with the van] Did you see that?[realizes that everyone else in the van is asleep]

— Inception 2010 sleep

Cobb: You create the world of the dream, you bring the subject into that dream, and they fill it with their subconscious.Ariadne: How could I ever acquire enough detail to make them think that its reality?Cobb: Well dreams, they feel real while were in them, right? Its only when we wake up that we realize how things are 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 whats going on.Ariadne: I guess, yeah.Cobb: So how did we end up here?Ariadne: Well we just came from the a...Cobb: Think about it Ariadne, how did you get here? Where are you right now?Ariadne: Were dreaming?Cobb: Youre actually in the middle of the workshop right now, sleeping. This is your first lesson in shared dreaming. Stay calm.

— Inception 2010 dreams

Eames: They come here every day to sleep?Elderly Bald Man: [towards Cobb] No. They come to be woken up. The dream has become their reality. Who are you to say otherwise, son?

— Inception 2010 war

Maurice Fischer: [Robert opens the vault to see Maurice on his death bed struggling to say something] Disa... disap... disappointedFischer: I know, Dad. I know you were disappointed I couldnt be you.Maurice Fischer: No. No, no. I was disappointed... that you tried.[Robert opens the safe to find the new Last Will and Testament along with the pinwheel from when he was a kid. The inception has worked]

— Inception 2010 death

Cobb: I think positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time.

— Inception 2010 time

Mal: What are you doing here?Ariadne: My name is...Mal: I know who you are. What are you doing here?Ariadne: Im just trying to understand...Mal: How could you understand? Do you know what it is to be a lover? To be half of a whole?Ariadne: No...Mal: Ill tell you a riddle. Youre waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you; but you dont know for sure. But it doesnt matter. How can it not matter to you where that train will take you?Cobb: Because youll be together.

— Inception 2010 love

Fischer: Couldnt somebody have dreamt up a goddamn beach?

— Inception 2010 god

Arthur: What about his security? Its gonna get worse as we go deeper.Cobb: I think we run with Mr. Charles.Arthur: No.Eames: Whos Mr. Charles?Arthur: Bad idea.Cobb: The second we get in that hotel with Fischer, his security is gonna be all over us. We run with Mr. Charles like we did on the Stein job.Eames: So youve done it before?Arthur: Yeah, and it didnt work. The subject realized he was dreaming and his subconscious tore us to pieces.Eames: Excellent. But you learned a lot, right?

— Inception 2010 art

Cobb: [about Mal] She had locked something away, something deep inside her. The truth that she had once known, but... she chose to forget. Limbo became her reality.Ariadne: What happened when you woke up?Cobb: To wake up from that after, after years, after decades... after wed become old souls thrown back into youth like that... I knew something was wrong with her. She just wouldnt admit it. Eventually, she told me the truth. She was possessed by an idea, this one, very simple idea, that changed everything. That our world wasnt real. That she needed to wake up to come back to reality, that, in order to get back home, we had to kill ourselves.

— Inception 2010 truth

Ariadne: Cobb cant build anymore, can he?Arthur: I dont know if he cant, but he wont. He thinks its safer if he doesnt know the layouts.Ariadne: Why?Arthur: He wont tell me. But I think its Mal.Ariadne: His ex-wife?Arthur: No, not his ex.Ariadne: Theyre still together?Arthur: No, she... shes dead. What you see in there is just his projection of her.Ariadne: What was she like in real life?Arthur: She was lovely.

— Inception 2010 love

Saito: You remind me of someone... a man I met in a half-remembered dream. He was possessed of some radical notions.

— Inception 2010 mind

Arthur: So, a totem. Its a small object, potentially heavy, something you can have on you all the time...Ariadne: What, like a coin?Arthur: No, it has to be more unique than that, like - this is a loaded die.[Ariadne reaches out to take the die]Arthur: Nah, I cant let you touch it, that would defeat the purpose. See only I know the balance and weight of this particular loaded die. That way when you look at your totem, you know beyond a doubt youre not in someone elses dream.

— Inception 2010 time

Eames: Great. Thank you. So, now were trapped in Fischers mind battling his own private army, and if we get killed, well be lost in limbo till our brains turn to scrambled egg.

— Inception 2010 mind

[Saito has been shot in the chest]Cobb: Hows he doing?Ariadne: Hes in a lot of pain.Cobb: When we get down to the lower levels, the pain will be less intense.Ariadne: And if he dies?Cobb: Worst case scenario? When he wakes up, his mind is completely gone.Saito: Cobb. Ill still honor the arrangement.Cobb: I appreciate that, Saito, but when you wake up, you wont even remember that we had an arrangement. Limbos gonna become your reality. Youre gonna be lost down there so long that youre gonna become an old man.Saito: Filled with regret.Cobb: Waiting to die alone.Saito: No. Ill come back. And well be young men together again.

— Inception 2010 pain

[creates a whole new location out of two mirrors]Cobb: Very impressive.[notices Mal; flashback of himself and Mal on the same bridge]Cobb: I know this bridge. This place is real, isnt it?Ariadne: Yeah, I cross it everyday on the way to the college.Cobb: Never recreate places from your memory. Always imagine new places.Ariadne: Well, you gotta draw from stuff you know, right?Cobb: Only use details, 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 whats real and what is a dream.Ariadne: Is that what happened to you?[grabs her arm]Cobb: Hey listen to me. This has nothing to do with me. Understand?Ariadne: Is that why you need me to build your dreams?

— Inception 2010 dreams

Arthur: You. What the hell was all that?Cobb: I have it under control.Arthur: Id hate to see it out of control.

— Inception 2010 art

Arthur: Where were you? What happened to you?Cobb: Got blocked by a freight train.Arthur: [to Ariadne] Why would you put a train course in the middle of a downtown intersection?Ariadne: Why, I didnt.Arthur: Where did it come from?Cobb: Let me ask you a question, why the hell were we ambushed, huh? Those were not normal projections. Theyve been trained, for Gods sakes!Arthur: Youre right.Ariadne: How could they be trained?Arthur: Fischers had an extractor teach his subconscious to defend itself, so, his subconscious has militarized. It should have shown in the research. Im sorry.

— Inception 2010 god

Saito: [thinking its Eames shape shifted into Browning] Hey, I see youve changed.Peter Browning: [confused] Sorry?Eames: [appears in the background and silently warns Saito its not him]Saito: Ahh... Im sorry. I mistook you for a friend.Peter Browning: Well, good-looking fellow, Im sure.Eames: Thats Fischers projection of Browning. Lets follow him and see how he behaves.Saito: Why?Eames: Because how he acts will tell us if Fischer is starting to suspect him just the way we want him to.

— Inception 2010 war

Cobb: Never recreate from your memory. Always imagine new places!

— Inception 2010 memory

Ariadne: You might have the rest of the team convinced to carry on with this job, but they dont know the truth.Cobb: Truth? What truth?Ariadne: The truth that at 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, were also going deeper into you. And... Im not sure were gonna like what we find.

— Inception 2010 truth

Ariadne: These arent just dreams. These are memories. And you said never to use memories.Cobb: I know I did.Ariadne: Youre trying to keep her alive. You cant let her go.Cobb: You dont understand. These are moments I regret, the memories that I have to change.

— Inception 2010 dreams

Cobb: I knew Inception was possible because Id done it to my wife.

— Inception 2010 wife

Ariadne: Thats some subconscious youve got on you, Cobb! Shes a real charmer!Arthur: Oh, I see youve met Mrs Cobb.

— Inception 2010 art

Eames: Fischers OK, unless he gets car-sick.

— Inception 2010

Mal: Do you know what it is to be a lover? Half of a whole?

— Inception 2010 love

Ariadne: You mind telling your subconscious to take it easy?

— Inception 2010 mind

Arthur: You couldnt have peed before you went under?Yusuf: Sorry.Eames: A bit too much free champagne before take off, Yusuf?Yusuf: Ha ha, bloody ha.

— Inception 2010 art

Ariadne: Wont you tell me anything about this first?Cobb: Before I describe the job I have to know you can do it.Ariadne: Why?Cobb: Its not, strictly speaking, legal.

— Inception 2010 you

Arthur: [Getting out of the water after the kicks] What happened?Ariadne: Cobb stayed.Arthur: With Mal?Ariadne: No, to find Saito.Arthur: Hell be lost.Ariadne: No hell be all right.

— Inception 2010 art

Ariadne: [contemplating her totem] An elegant solution for keeping track of reality.

— Inception 2010 reality

Mal: You keep telling yourself what you know. But what do you believe? What do you feel?Cobb: Guilt.

— Inception 2010 self

Ariadne: I guess I thought the dream-space would be all about the visual, but its more about the feeling. My question is what happens when you start messing with the physics of it.

— Inception 2010 art

Cobb: Downwards is the only way forwards.

— Inception 2010 war

Fischer: After my mother died, you know what he told me? Robert, theres really nothing to be said.Peter Browning: He was bad with emotions.Fischer: I was eleven.

— Inception 2010 emotions

Professor: Mr. Cobb has a job offer he would like to discuss with you.Ariadne: Like a work placement?Cobb: Not exactly.

— Inception 2010 work

Cobb: You create the world of the dream. We bring the subject into that dream and fill it with their subconscious.Ariadne: How could I ever acquire enough detail to make them think that its reality?Cobb: Well, dreams, they feel real while were in them right? Its only when we wake up then we realize that something was actually strange.

— Inception 2010 dreams

[repeated line]Arthur: Paradox.

— Inception 2010 art

Cobb: The moments passed. Whatever I do I cant change this moment. Im about to call out to them. They run away. If Im ever going to see their faces Ive gotta get back home. The real world.

— Inception 2010 change

Ariadne: Cobb, Im coming with you.Cobb: I promised Miles...Ariadne: The team needs someone who understands what youre struggling with. And it doesnt have to be me, but then you have to show Arthur what I just saw.Cobb: [to Saito] Get us another seat on the plane.

— Inception 2010 art

Arthur: Cobb said youd be back.Ariadne: I tried not to come, but...Arthur: But theres nothing quite like it.Ariadne: Its just... pure creation.

— Inception 2010 art

Cobb: Theres no use threatening him in a dream, right, Mal?Mal: It depends on what youre threatening. Killing him will just wake him up. But pain...[shoots Arthur in the knee]Mal: Pain is in the mind, and judging by the decor were in your mind, arent we, Arthur?

— Inception 2010 art

Mal: No creeping doubts? Not feeling persecuted, Dom? Chased around the globe by anonymous corporations and police forces, the way the projections persecute the dreamer? Admit it: you dont believe in one reality anymore. So choose. Choose to be here. Choose me.

— Inception 2010 reality

Cobb: You got the basic layout. Bookstore, cafe, almost everything else is here too.Ariadne: Who are the people?Cobb: 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. Thats one of the ways we extract information from the subject.Ariadne: How else do you do it?Cobb: By creating something secure, like a bank vault or a jail. The mind automatically fills it with information its trying to protect. Understand?Ariadne: Then you break in and steal it?Cobb: Well...Ariadne: I guess I thought that the dream space would be all about the visual. But its more about a feel of it. My question is what happens when you start messing with the physics of it all...?[folds city on top of itself]Ariadne: Its something, isnt it?Cobb: Yes, it is.

— Inception 2010 books

Cobb: I came here to tell you... something.[pause]Cobb: Something that... you once knew to be true.Saito: [remembering] Impossible...

— Inception 2010 true

Cobb: You shouldnt be here.Ariadne: I just wanted to see what kind of tests youre doing on your own every night.Cobb: This has nothing to do with you.Ariadne: This has everything to do with me. Youve asked me to share dreams with you.Cobb: Not these. These are my dreams.

— Inception 2010 dreams

Professor: Come back to reality, Dom.

— Inception 2010 reality

Fischer: [handing his abductors his wallet] Theres five hundred dollars in there. And the wallets worth more than that.

— Inception 2010

Cobb: If I get on this plane and you dont honor our agreement, when we land, I go to jail for the rest of my life.Saito: Complete the job en route. I make one phone call from the plane. Youll have no trouble getting through Immigration.

— Inception 2010 life

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

— Inception 2010 art

Eames: Ah. So, this is your idea of losing a tail, huh?Cobb: Different tail.

— Inception 2010 sin

Cobb: All right, we continue on with the job, and we do it as fast as possible, and we get out using the kick, just like before.Eames: Forget it. We go any deeper, we just raise the stakes. I am sitting this one out on this level, boys.

— Inception 2010 sin

Arthur: Eames, I am impressed.Eames: Your condescension, as always, is much appreciated, Arthur. Thank you.

— Inception 2010 art

Fischer: [to Saito, out of breath after evading an avalanche] Man, couldnt someone have dreamt up a goddamn beach? Huh?

— Inception 2010 god

Cobb: I miss you more than I can bear, but we had our time together. I have to let you go.

— Inception 2010 time

Arthur: Asshole! How did you mess up the carpet?Nash: It wasnt my fault.Arthur: Youre the architect!Nash: I didnt know he was going to rub his damn cheek on it!

— Inception 2010 art

Mal: If I jump, would I survive?Cobb: A clean dive, perhaps. Mal, what are you doing here?Mal: I thought you might be missing me.Cobb: You know I am but I cant trust you anymore.Mal: So what?

— Inception 2010 trust

Arthur: And I will lead them on a merry chase.

— Inception 2010 art

Ariadne: These arent just dreams, these are memories and you said never to use memories!

— Inception 2010 dreams

[Mal attacks Cobb and Ariadne; Cobb closes elevator door before Mal can reach them]Mal: You promised! You promised!Cobb: Please, I just have to keep you here, just for now.Mal: You said wed be together! You said wed grow old together!Cobb: Ill come back, I promise.[Mal glares at them]

— Inception 2010 you

Mal: Tell me, do the children miss me?Cobb: You cant imagine...

— Inception 2010 children

Ariadne: [wakes up after being stabbed by Mal in a dream] Why... why wouldnt I wake up?Arthur: Cause there was still some time on the clock and you cant wake up from within a dream unless you die.

— Inception 2010 time

[first lines]Saitos Attendant: He was delirious but asked for you by name. Show him...Japanese Security Guard: He was carrying nothing but this...[gun]Japanese Security Guard: And this...[spinning top]Saito: Are you here to kill me?

— Inception 2010 you

Ariadne: Why are they all looking at me?Cobb: Because 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: What? Theyre going to attack us?Cobb: No, no.[quietly; almost to himself]Cobb: Just you.[creates a new bridge over the street]Cobb: This is great, but Im telling you, if you keep changing things...

— Inception 2010 art

Ariadne: Do you think you can just build a prison of memories to lock her in? Do you really think that thats gonna contain her?

— Inception 2010 memories

Fischer: Im insured against kidnapping for up to 10 million. This should be very simple.Cobb: Shut up! It wont be.Arthur: In your fathers office, below the bookshelves is his personal safe. We need the combination.Fischer: I dont know any safe.Cobb: That doesnt mean you dont know the combination. Tell us what it is.Fischer: I dont know.Arthur: We have it on good authority you do know.Fischer: Yeah? Whose authority?

— Inception 2010 books

Cobb: [From Trailer] I can access your mind through your dreams.

— Inception 2010 dreams

Arthur: [From Trailer][to Cobb]Arthur: You should walk away from this!

— Inception 2010 art

Cobb: [From Trailer] Youre asking me for Inception. I hope you do understand the gravity of that request.

— Inception 2010 hope

Ariadne: I just want to understand.

— Inception 2010 want

Ariadne: [Confused] Wait, whose subconscious are we going into exactly?

— Inception 2010

Mal: Your world is not real!

— Inception 2010 world

Saito: Ill come back and well be young men together again.

— Inception 2010 men

Cobb: [over the phone] How are you, huh? How are you doing?James: Okay, I guess.Cobb: Whos just okay? Is that you, James?James: Yeah. Is Mommy with you?Cobb: James, we talked about this. Mommys not here anymore.James: Where?

— Inception 2010 you

Arthur: And you! You knew about this and went along with it!Yusuf: I trusted him!Arthur: You trusted him! What, when he promised you half his share?Yusuf: No, his whole share. Besides he said hed done it before.Arthur: Youve done it before? What, with Mal? Cause that worked so good!Cobb: That has nothing to do with it. I did what I had to do to get back to my children.

— Inception 2010 art

[as the dream collapses]Mal: [to Saito, handing him his secrets] He was close. Very close.

— Inception 2010 dream

Fischer: [of his father] At the end, he called me to his deathbed. He could barely speak; but he took the trouble to tell me one last thing. He pulled me close... and I could only make out... one word: Disappointed.

— Inception 2010 death

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