Emma Thompson credited as playing...
Anna Quangel
- Otto Quangel: What do you think happens to our cards?
- Anna Quangel: Why do you want to know?
- Otto Quangel: I want to know how people react.
- Anna Quangel: Some people will be afraid, probably. Afraid that someone may have watched them pick up the card. Some will, maybe, put them back. Some people will turn them in to a policeman... but, our cards will also be read by them too.
- Otto Quangel: Its like with a machine. A little sand in the gears will not stop the machine. But, if a person throws a little more sand and then more, the motor begins to stutter. The assembly line stops. In my mind, I see lots of people throwing sand into the gears.
- Anna Quangel: You are a romantic, Otto Quangel.
- Otto Quangel: I'm a mechanic.
- Anna Quangel: Ya, that too.
- Anna Quangel: Otto...
- Otto Quangel: I'm writing.
- Anna Quangel: To who?
- Otto Quangel: I don't know. I'm writing cards. Cards that tell the truth. People will read these cards. Will pass them on.
- Anna Quangel: Cards? You're scribbling cards? What is that supposed to do?
- Anna Quangel: Otto, what are we doing? We've lost our son. Other people have lost, but, they - they don't...
- Otto Quangel: With this system - this regime, now, I feel that - we're free. I mean, freed - from all of it. This is how I feel.
- Otto Quangel: Sometimes I feel the danger - as if it was so physical. I actually feel it.
- Anna Quangel: Please, don't frighten me.
- Otto Quangel: You know what will happen?
- Anna Quangel: Yes.
- Otto Quangel: It can't be changed.
- Anna Quangel: I know. Otto, it doesn't matter.