Detachment (film) Quotes

Detachment (film) is a television program that was first aired in 1970 . Detachment ended its run in 1970.

It features Greg Shapiro as producer, The Newton Brothers in charge of musical score, and Tony Kaye as head of cinematography.

Detachment (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Detachment (film) is 100 minutes long. Detachment (film) is distributed by Tribeca Film.

The cast includes: Adrien Brody as Henry Barthes, Betty Kaye as Meredith, Sami Gayle as Erica, Louis Zorich as Grampa, and Tim Blake Nelson as Mr. Wiatt.

Detachment (film) Quotes

Tim Blake Nelson as Mr. Wiatt

• (Tim Blake Nelson) "I was in my room for 2 hours and saw one parent. Where are they? Where is everybody? It's uncanny, no air raid sirens, not bombs. It doesn't happen that way. It starts with a whisper, and then nothing."

Adrien Brody as Henry Barthes

• (Adrien Brody) "I realized something. I'm a non-person, Sarah. You shouldn't be here, I'm not here. You may see me, but I'm hollow."

• (Adrien Brody) "Y'know it's funny, I spend a lot of time trying to not have to deal -- to not really commit. I'm a substitute teacher, there's no real responsibility to teach. Your responsibility is to maintain order, make sure nobody kills anybody in your classroom, and then they get to their next period."

• (Adrien Brody) "Whatever is on my mind, I say it as I feel it, I'm truthful to myself; I'm young and I'm old, I've been bought and I've been sold, so many times. I am hard-faced, I am gone. I am just like you."

• (Adrien Brody) "It doesn't take strength Meredith, you've gotta understand that, unfortunately, most people lack self awareness."

• (Adrien Brody) "How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you?"
• (Adrien Brody) "Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false."
• (Adrien Brody) "Examples of this in everyday life: "Oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, fashionable." Our young men today are being told that women are whores, bitches, things to be screwed, beaten, s*** on, and shamed. This is a marketing holocaust. Twenty-fours hours a day for the rest of our lives, the powers that be are hard at work dumbing us to death."
• (Adrien Brody) "So to defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve, our own minds."

• (Adrien Brody) "It's deliberately believing in lies while knowing they're false."

• (Adrien Brody) "I am money, I change hands like the dollar bill, that has been rubbed by a lamp; Then a genie appeared and cried loudly, with volume; But the tears were all for myself, and that's where it all went wrong"

• (Adrien Brody) "Y'know you can't -- you can't keep living on the street --"
• (Sami Gayle) "I'm not, I mean, I'm staying here with you."
• (Adrien Brody) "Well, you can't continue to stay here with me. I'm not good for you --"
• (Sami Gayle) "That's not true. You're like, the only family I've ever had --"
• (Adrien Brody) "Well, I can't be your family, I can't give you what you need. You have to understand, you should be --"
• (Sami Gayle) "You're good and gentle, you're the most kind -- I love you Henry. Don't let them take me, please nooooooooo, you're all I have, please don't let me go."

• (Adrien Brody) "We have such a responsibility to guide our young so that they don't end up falling apart, falling by the wayside, becoming insignificant."

Betty Kaye as Meredith

• (Betty Kaye) "Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."

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