Three Colors: Red (1994)

Jean-Louis Trintignant: Le juge

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• The Judge : I want nothing.

  Valentine : Then stop breathing.

  The Judge : Good idea.

• Valentine : You're not afraid?

  The Judge : I wonder what I'd do in their place. The same thing.

  Valentine : You'd throw stones?

  The Judge : In their place? Of course. And that goes for everyone I judged. Given their lives, I would steal, I'd kill, I'd lie. Of course I would. All that because I wasn't in their shoes, but mine.

• The Judge : Deciding what is true and what isn't now seems to me...a lack of modesty.

  Valentine : Vanity?

  The Judge : Vanity.

• Valentine : If I had to go to court...are there still judges like you?

  The Judge : You won't go to court. Justice doesn't deal with the innocent.

• The Judge : Perhaps you're the woman I never met.

• The Judge : Leave. It's your destiny. You can't live your brother's life for him.

  Valentine : I love him. If only I could help.

  The Judge : You can. Be.

  Valentine : What do you mean?

  The Judge : That's all: be.

• Valentine : Is there someone you love?

  The Judge : No.

  Valentine : Have you ever loved?

  The Judge : Yesterday I had a dream - I had a dream about you. You were 40 or 50 years old - and you were happy.

  Valentine : Do your dreams come true?

  The Judge : It's been years since I had a nice dream.

• Valentine : Excuse me... the door was open. I'm sorry, I think I ran over your dog. Rita. A German Shepherd.

  The Judge : [Displaying little interest]  It's possible. She disappeared yesterday.

  Valentine : She's in my car. Alive. I don't know what to do.

  Valentine : [after getting no response from the judge]  Would you like me to take her to a vet?

  The Judge : [Displaying little interest]  As you wish.

  Valentine : If I ran over your daughter, would you react the same way?

  The Judge : [Displaying no emotion]  I don't have a daughter, miss.

  The Judge : [pauses, then turns to her]  Go away... and don't close the door!

• The Judge : You think I'm a bastard?

  Valentine : Yes.

• The Judge : Before leaving the other day, you spoke of pity. I later realized it was disgust.

• The Judge : I really don't know if I was on the side of right or wrong. Here at least, I know more or less where the truth lies.

• Valentine : Were you a cop?

  The Judge : Worse, a Judge.

  Valentine : [Shaking]  A Judge?

• The Judge : How long has your brother been shooting up?

  Valentine : How did you know?

  The Judge : It wasn't hard to guess.