Scarlett Johansson credited as playing...
- [after bringing meat for the birth feast]
- Pieter: Not even a smile for my pains?
- Griet: Not today.
- Pieter: Come on.
- [she refuses]
- Pieter: I shall put it in the book, then: "Owed by Griet: one smile."
- [Griet gives in and smiles]
- [to Vermeer, after seeing her own portrait for the first time]
- Griet: You looked inside me...
- Griet: [enters the room, where Maria Thins and Catharina sit quietly by the fireplace, and curtsies]
- Catharina: Yes?
- Griet: Madam, shall I wash the windows?
- Catharina: [Scoffs] You don't need to ask me about such matters.
- Griet: It's just...it may change the light.
- [both Catharina and Maria Thins stare at Griet questioningly]
- Griet: Good morning, madam.
- [curtsies]
- Catharina: Don't speak until you are spoken to.
- Vermeer: [Describing his newly arrived Camera Obscura] See this? This is called a lens. Beams of reflected light from that corner pass through it, into the box, so that we can see it here.
- Griet: Is it real?
- Vermeer: It's an image. A picture made of light.
- Griet: Does the box show you what to paint?
- Vermeer: It helps.
- Pieter: Don't get caught up in his world.
- Griet: I may only be a maid, but I would NEVER give in to Master Van Ruijven!
- Pieter: I wasn't talking about Van Ruijven...
- Pieter: No smoke without fire, they say.
- Griet: Is that what you think?
- Pieter: No. You're only a maid, what can you do?
- Pieter: Don't rush away, Griet. Please. Leave the house. Join me and Pa in the meat market.
- Griet: I must get back.
- Pieter: I'll fetch your things. I'll send someone.
- Griet: No.
- Pieter: Our own life, Griet. Answering to no one. Marry me.
