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Harry Caul: [from dream sequence] He'll kill you if he gets a chance. I'm not afraid of death. I am afraid of murder.
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Martin Stett: I'm not following you, I'm looking for you. There's a big difference.
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[about a bum on a park bench]
Ann: Every time I see one of those old guys, I always think the same thing.
Mark: What do you think?
Ann: I always think that he was once somebody's baby boy. Really, I do. I think he was once somebody's baby boy, and he had a mother and a father who loved him, and now there he is, half dead on a park bench, and where are his mother or his father, all his uncles now?
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[repeated line from the recording]
Mark: He'd kill us if he got the chance.
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Martin Stett: [Final Line] We'll be listening to you.
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Ann: This conversation is over.
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[last lines]
Martin Stett: [on the phone] We know that you know, Mr. Caul. For your own sake, don't get involved any further. We'll be listening to you.
[plays back recording of Harry playing saxophone]
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Stan: What a STUPID conversation.
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Mark: Does it bother you?
Ann: What?
Mark: Walking around in circles.
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[first lines]
Passerby: Well, I want to go over to my place and start, you know, getting it on...
Ann: Oh, that's terrible.
Mark: Yeah. Do you ever, uh... ballet?
Ann: Be thankful. Do you have a quarter for them?
Mark: Yes, I do.
Ann: [gives it to street band]
Ann: What about me?
Mark: You'll see.
Ann: A lot of fun you are. You're supposed to tease me, give hints, make me guess, you know.
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Ann: I can't stand it. I can't stand it any more.
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Harry Caul: [upset, walking over to Martin seated] What are you doing here?
Martin Stett: Take it easy I'm just a messenger. I brought you a drink.
Harry Caul: I don't want your drink. Why are you following me?
Martin Stett: I'm not following you. I'm looking for you, big difference.
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Stan: Ha, ha. He's a nice guy for a cop.
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Harry Caul: I don't care what they're talkin' about. All I want is a nice, fat recording.
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Harry Caul: Why are you asking me all these questions?
Amy: 'Cause it's your birthday.
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Martin Stett: Some nice Christmas cookies there I made. You want one? They're good.
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Harry Caul: You still married?
Meredith: Oh, I don't know. Probably.
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Harry Caul: If there's one sure fire rule that I have learned in this business is... I don't know anything about human nature. I don't know anything about curiousity. That's not part of what I do.
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Harry Caul: Listen, did you hear about the fag wiretapper who could only tap to princess' phone?
Bernie Moran: How?
Harry Caul: Uhh.
Bernie Moran: Made that up yourself, huh? It's pretty funny.
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Harry Caul: - Would you... If you were a girl who'd waited for someone...
Meredith: - You can trust me.
Harry Caul: - Well you never really knew when he was going to come to see you. You just lived in a room alone, and you knew nothing about him. And if you loved him, you were patient with him, and even though he didn't dare ever tell you anything about himself personally, even though he may have loved you, would you...
Meredith: - Would I what?
Harry Caul: - Would you go back to him?
Meredith: - Well, how would I know? How would I know that he loved me?
Harry Caul: - You'd have no way of knowing.
The Conversation Quotes
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Gladys 2022-04-20 09:01:41
On the surface, it discusses the cost of eavesdropping on privacy, but inside, it falls into the endless abyss of resistance between reality and fantasy; when the flashbacks no longer appear, those voices haunt Kaur like a nightmare. Dialogue, until the end, the loneliness conveyed by the saxophone floods the cramped room, will that bug be in the instrument? The answer is irrelevant.
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Marquis 2021-12-08 08:01:44
[B+] Getting better. It is really unexpected that Coppola would shoot such a steady work, the Coppola in the 70s. Sensory film: The pervasive sound becomes the direct source of all fears. Coppola is a rather bold approach in ensuring that most of the focus is shifted to the sense of hearing. The auditory repetition has reached a sense of torment that is inaccessible to the vision. Everything in the audience and characters is constantly drawn away in the sound. At the end of the scene-the nightmare of "sound" disappears completely for the first time, but completes it completely in peace. The outbreak. The last 20 minutes is a super masterpiece, but this kind of slightly classical and old-school narrative method is what I reject.
