The English Patient (1996)

Julian Wadham: Madox

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• Madox : I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read so much into hardly anything at all.

• Almásy : There is no God... but I hope someone looks after you.

  Madox : Just in case you're interested, it's called the suprasternal notch. Come and visit us in Dorset when all this nonsense is over.

  [Heads away but turns back] 

  Madox : You'll never come to Dorset.

• Almásy : That place. That place at the base of a woman's throat, you know, the hollow. Here. Does it have an official name?

  Madox : For God's sake, man, pull yourself together.

• Almásy : You can't explore from the air, Madox. lf you could explore from the air life would be very simple. Contact.

  Madox : Contact.

• Madox : My God. They're swimming. They're swimming.

• Almásy : What do they care about our maps?

  Madox : What do we find in the desert? Arrowheads, spears. ln a war, if you own the desert you own North Africa.

  Almásy : Own the desert? Ha!