Cate Blanchett credited as playing...
Homeless Man • Broker • Plant Worker • Scientist • Funeral Speaker • Conservative Mother • Tattooed Punk • CEO • Choreographer • Pupeteer • Newsreader • Reporter • Teacher
- Various: [as a fifth-grade teacher] Now, nothing is original. OK? So you can steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration and fuels your imagination. OK? And you can devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, buildings, bridges, you know, trees, cloud formations, bodies of water, you know, even... even light and shadows. Now, I want you to select only those things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. All right? Now, if you do this, your work... and your theft... will be authentic. All right?
- Various: [as a funeral speaker] You don't understand that one can be attached to nothing and be happy.But you're too scared of no longer believing. You don't understand that one can be attached to nothing and be happy. We see everything. We love nothing. I am against systems. The most acceptable system is, in principle, to have none. Abolition of logic, Dada. Abolition of memory, Dada. Abolition of archeology, Dada. Abolition of the future, Dada. Dada is still shit, but from now on... From now on we want to shit in different colors, to decorate the art zoo with all of the consular flags. Dada is neither madness, nor wisdom, nor irony. Dada means nothing. And you are all idiots. You know, you're all complete idiots made from the alcohol of purified sleep. You're like your hopes, nothing. Like your paradise, nothing. Like your idols, nothing. Like your political men, nothing. Like your heroes, nothing. Like your artists, nothing. Your religion, nothing. No more painters. No more writers. No more musicians. No more sculptors. No more religions. No more Republicans. No more royalists. No more imperialists. No more anarchists. No more socialists. No more Bolsheviks. No more politicians. No more proletarians. No more Democrats. No more bourgeois. No more aristocrats. No more armies. No more police. No more fatherlands. Enough of all these imbecilities. No more anything. No more anything. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.