Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus Quotes

Diane Arbus: Why did you throw down the key?

Lionel Sweeney: You looked like you needed to come up to my place.

Diane Arbus: Why isn't she your girlfriend?

Lionel Sweeney: She doesn't touch me.

Diane Arbus: I want to take a portrait of you and your wife.

Lionel Sweeney: I don't have a wife.

Diane Arbus: Then I want to take a portrait of you. Just you.

Lionel Sweeney: Why do you want to take a portrait of someone you've never seen, Diane?

Diane Arbus: What is it?

Lionel Sweeney: Well, every month or so I'm able to breathe about five percent less. My lungs are disintegrating. It's getting harder and harder for me to breathe... deeply. In a matter of months, I'll drown without even swimming, because there'll be nothing left... of my lungs.

Diane Arbus: You're not dying.

Lionel Sweeney: Yes, I am.

Diane Arbus: No, you're not.

Lionel Sweeney: [holding an inflatable raft] I blew this up for you.

Diane Arbus: Why did you want me to shave you? Hmm? Why?

Lionel Sweeney: So I could swim out further.

Diane Arbus: Swim out?

Lionel Sweeney: Yes.

Diane Arbus: What are you saying?

Lionel Sweeney: [he struggles for words] That I want you with me.

Diane Arbus: What?

Lionel Sweeney: Diane.

Diane Arbus: What are you talking about? You want me to watch you die?

Lionel Sweeney: I want you with me, that's all.

Diane Arbus: But is this what you did? Made me fall in love with you to watch you...

Lionel Sweeney: I don't see it that way at all. I love you.

Man: What do you photograph?

Diane Arbus: Me? Oh no, I'm not the photographer. My husband is.

Lionel Sweeney: You saw me the night I moved in, remember?

Diane Arbus: Yes.

Lionel Sweeney: I definitely saw you. You trying to seduce me, Diane?

Diane Arbus: No, no.

Lionel Sweeney: No?

Diane Arbus: God, no.

Lionel Sweeney: Is that why you came up here in the middle of the night?

Diane Arbus: I, um... Well, I would like to, uh, I'd like to take a portrait of you and your... your wife.

Lionel Sweeney: I don't have a wife.

Diane Arbus: Well then, I would like to take a portrait of you, just you.

Diane Arbus: Where is your favourite place to be?

Lionel Sweeney: The ocean.

Diane Arbus: Then why don't we go there?

Lionel Sweeney: We will.