The Lost Boys (1978)

Sebastian Buss: Michael

Quotes 

• J.M. Barrie : Is this really Michael?

  Michael : Of course I'm Michael. Did you escape, too?

  J.M. Barrie : Escape?

  Michael : When we were being chased by that man.

  Sylvia Llewelyn Davies : Michael's dreams are as wayward as your own.

  J.M. Barrie : Oh, yes, you mean that man that looked like this.

• Michael : I had such a funny dream, Mary. I dreamt I saw Father's ghost in the garden, but that wasn't the funny thing. The funny thing was that he wasn't a ghost at all.

  Mary Hodgson : Well, I should hope not.

  Michael : No, I mean he was real and I was the ghost, because when he tried to touch me, he went right through me, and I fell in a river, and I couldn't swim.

  Mary Hodgson : You and your dreams. I wonder if you know half the time whether you're awake or asleep.

• Michael : Why do I have such bad dreams, Mary?

  Mary Hodgson : I don't know, to be sure. I've never had a bad dream in my life, except when I've had to do your mending.

  Michael : Uncle Jim has bad dreams.

  Mary Hodgson : I know he does, and I shouldn't wonder if he's not to blame for some of yours, too.

  Michael : Why, Mary?

  Mary Hodgson : Why ask me? You know him far better than I do.

• Arthur Llewelyn Davies : I wanted to get you an edition with illustrations, but your mother thought they might give you nightmares.

  Michael : Give me what?

  Sylvia Llewelyn Davies : Give you nightmares, darling, because... Oh, never mind. Why don't you wheel your father around the garden and show him all the flowers that have come up since he's been gone?

  Nico : Michael, look what Uncle Jim has brought you!

  Michael : Oh, may I go and open it?

  Sylvia Llewelyn Davies : Michael, darling, you really ought to...

  Arthur Llewelyn Davies : Let him go if he wants to.

  Jack : Why does he call him Uncle Jim?

  George : Well, why not?

  Jack : He's not our uncle.

  Arthur Llewelyn Davies : Now, Jack, I think Uncle Jim suits him very well.

• Sylvia Llewelyn Davies : Jimmy, the operations were one thing, but if you start paying for the boys to go to school, well, I don't think Arthur could bear that.

  J.M. Barrie : Do you know how much money Peter Pan has made me since it first opened?

  Sylvia Llewelyn Davies : What has that got to do with it?

  J.M. Barrie : Just over half a million pounds, not including America. Where would Peter Pan be if it weren't for George? Don't you think he deserves his share of the spoils?

  Sylvia Llewelyn Davies : But what about the others? We can't just send George to Eton. It wouldn't be fair on the others.

  J.M. Barrie : Don't worry. I'll get my money's worth out of them yet.

  Michael : Dark and sinister man, have at thee!