Don't Look Now Quotes

  • Laura Baxter: One of your children has posed a curious question: if the world is round, why is a frozen lake flat?

    John Baxter: That's a good question.

    Laura Baxter: [flipping through book] Ah, here it says that Lake Ontario curves more than 3 degrees from its Eastern end to its Western end. So frozen water really isn't flat.

    John Baxter: Nothing is what it seems.

  • Inspector Longhi: The skill of police artists is to make the living appear dead.

  • Heather: Fetch him back! Let him not go!

  • Laura Baxter: This one who's blind. She's the one that can see.

  • John Baxter: Christine is dead. She is dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead!

  • Bishop Barbarrigo: [while passing by a dilapidated church] The churches belong to God, but he doesn't seem to care about them.

  • Heather: One of the things I love about Venice, is that it's so safe for me to walk.

    John Baxter: Steps.

    Heather: Thank you... The sound changes, you see, as you come to a canal. And the echoes from the walls are so clear... My sister hates it.

    John Baxter: That's too bad.

    Heather: She says it's like a city in aspic, wrapped over from a dinner party, where all the guests are dead or gone.

  • Laura Baxter: Your bishop makes me feel strange.

    John Baxter: I imagine he makes God feel less than immaculate.

  • Inspector Longhi: Age makes women grow to look more like each other. Don't you find that? Old men decay and each becomes quite distinct. Women seem to converge, eh?

Extended Reading
  • Velda 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    I didn't understand it. I wanted to see the analysis. I feel that no one understands it at all.

  • Conrad 2021-12-21 08:01:16

    The shots are very artistic, especially the techniques used in lens transitions. But the plot is a bit "too artistic" logically, and it is difficult to tell exactly what the movie is about. Personally don't like this kind of movies