Goya's Ghosts (2006)
Stellan Skarsgård: Francisco Goya
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Quotes
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[Goya is trying to see Inés]
Goya : I am painter to the king!
Asylum Director : To which king? Do you know how many kings I have in here? I even have two Napoleons, and one of them is an Arab. The other one is 7'2" tall.
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Tomás Bilbatúa : Forgive me, Father Lorenzo, but um, have you ever been put to the... to the Question, yourself?
Brother Lorenzo : Have I ever been?
Tomás Bilbatúa : Yes. Have you ever been subjected to the Question?
Brother Lorenzo : Of course not.
Tomás Bilbatúa : Do you think that if you were, and they asked you to confess something grotesquely absurd... say... say you were told to confess that you're really a monkey.
[laughter around the table]
Tomás Bilbatúa : You're sure that god would grant you the fortitude to deny it? Or would you rather confess to being a monkey? To avoid the pain.
Goya : I know I would.
Tomás Bilbatúa : I know you would. So would I.
Tomás Bilbatúa : [to Lorenzo] Would you?
Goya : What is this Tomás, are you playing some sort of silly game with you guest? Nobody would ever ask Father Lorenzo to confess something so absurd.
Tomás Bilbatúa : I would.
[leaves the table]
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Goya : Where is Ines?
Brother Lorenzo : She is in very good hands?
Goya : [going after Lorenzo with rage] Tell me where she is!
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Inés : [model pointing at defaced portrait] Why doesn't that painting have a face?
Goya : Because he is a ghost.
Inés : No, he is not.
Goya : Have you ever seen a ghost?
Inés : No. But I have seen a witch.
Goya : Oh, did you?
Inés : Yes, but she had a face.
Goya : So what did she look like?
Inés : She was... all bent and creepy, and she...
[whispers:]
Inés : stank.
[makes disparaging sound]
Goya : That's interesting, because the witch that I know, she's... she's young, very lovely, and she smells of jasmine.
Inés : [smiles] She does?
Goya : She does. And I'm working on her portrait... right now.
Inés : [smiles as it dawns on her what he means] I'm no witch!
Goya : [chuckles] How do you know?
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Goya : You're crazy.
Tomás Bilbatúa : Francisco, please, stay out of this.
Goya : Let us go.
Tomás Bilbatúa : You can go.
Goya : What do you mean I can go? And Father Lorenzo?
Tomás Bilbatúa : Did he let my daughter go?
[to Lorenzo:]
Tomás Bilbatúa : Did you let my innocent daughter go?
[to Francisco:]
Tomás Bilbatúa : Did he?