Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Kristen Stewart: Valentine
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Quotes
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Valentine : It's theatre. It's an interpretation of life. It can be truer than life itself.
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Maria Enders : [Referring once again to the play 'Maloja Snake'] I don't know why I should be helping bring it to life.
Valentine : I bet you weren't saying stuff like this when you were playing Sigrid.
Maria Enders : I was a kid when I was playing Sigrid. I - I wasn't asking those kind of questions.
Valentine : Like Jo-Ann and her science fiction film?
Maria Enders : Yeah, probably.
Valentine : Don't you want to get that innocence back?
Maria Enders : You can't get innocent twice.
Valentine : You can. If you just accepted Helena the way you accepted Sigrid. Obviously it's easier to relate to strength rather than weakness. Youth is better than maturity. Cruelty is cruel; suffering sucks. She's - she's mature and she's innocent. She's innocent in her own right. That's what I like about her.
Maria Enders : Make some coffee: want some?
Valentine : [Repeats 'Cruelty is cruel; suffering sucks' to herself and shakes head in self-conscious regret at the unsophisticated sound of it]
Valentine : You didn't answer me. You have your interpretation of the play. I think mine's just confusing you. It's frustrating me. It's uncomfortable. It's not good.
Maria Enders : Stay.
Valentine : No, no.
Maria Enders : Please, stay. I need you.
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Maria Enders : I don't know why you are so dead set on making this play say the opposite of what it was meant to say.
Valentine : At 20, you saw Sigrid's ambition, and you saw her violence because you felt it in yourself.
Maria Enders : So?
Valentine : So, that's what I'm saying. The text is like an object. It's going to change perspective based on where you're standing.
Maria Enders : I don't know.
Valentine : We should go. We're going to miss the snake.
Maria Enders : There won't be any snake.
Valentine : Fuck it.
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Maria Enders : [Referring to Jo-Ann] She dives headfirst into a character's ambiguities, but I don't. That's why you admire what she does.
Valentine : Yeah. You know, I think that when you watch her in a movie like in the one we saw tonight, there is - there is no distance there.
Maria Enders : It's normal, it's a - culture. Right?
Valentine : Agreed.
Maria Enders : What's wrong with my acting? What do I need to do to make you admire me? Do I think too much? Huh? I'm too classical; not liberated like Jo-Ann? You're here to talk to me, so start talking.
Valentine : I don't know. You, you, you can't be as accomplished as you are and as well-rounded as an actress as you are and still expect to hold on to the privileges of youth. It just doesn't work that that.
Maria Enders : Oh. So I'm allowed to not be old as long as I don't want to be young. Is that it?
Valentine : Yeah, I don't know, I guess so. Yes, totally, well put. Fuck. I think maybe good night.
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Maria Enders : No, but everything is weighted to make Sigrid look good.
Valentine : I didn't read it like that. I see her arrogance and her cruelty. And Helena's humanity. She's able to talk about her own pain. It's moving.
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Maria Enders : [Maria feels Sigrid's lines in the script sound phony] Honestly, you don't find this ridiculous?
Valentine : Why, because she speaks brutally?
Maria Enders : No, because it's phony. I don't believe it.
Valentine : So you don't think people can be blinded by their own emotions?
Maria Enders : Oh, I do, but not to that extent. It's too theoretical. Even a little stupid.
Valentine : It's theater. It's an interpretation of life. It can be truer than life itself. Sigrid puts Helena's desires into words. She says the unspoken. She formulates it.
Maria Enders : Cruelly.
Valentine : OK, Cruelly.
Maria Enders : Yeah, cruelly. Because she's up to no good. You're not in the character's skin. You - I have no choice, I have to be them. I have to identify with them. When it's phony, I feel it - viscerally. Can be literary but still be true. Can feel the difference and can hear it.
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Valentine : She knows that it means her downfall, but that's the ultimate truth to desire. It's fuckin' powerful!
Maria Enders : [laughter]
Valentine : Oh my God, I hate you sometimes so much!
Maria Enders : You're making my head spin!
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Maria Enders : Look, there! Is that the snake?
Valentine : No. No, it's just mist. A little fog, when it breaks up.
Maria Enders : It's still pretty beautiful, though, huh? It's like its gathering and pouring out into the valley. Maybe it is the snake. We have to be patient. No, it's not the snake. Oh, yes! I think it's turning into the snake. How 'bout you? Val? What the hell are you doing? Val? Val? Val? Val? Val? Come to me. Val? Val?
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Maria Enders : I had a dream. We were already rehearsing and past and present were blending together. Confused.
Valentine : No kidding.
Maria Enders : I shouldn't have said yes to Klaus, but Wilhelm's death, mourning, I couldn't refuse.
Valentine : He is a sick director. Jo-Ann is a superstar. Pay's well.
Maria Enders : I don't need the money.
Valentine : OK.
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Maria Enders : [Against Valentine's suggestions, Maria leads them astray in the Alps] I think this road takes us to Maloja.
Valentine : What'll we do when we get to Maloja?
Maria Enders : Take the bus.
Valentine : You know you don't have to keep me on if you find my ideas simplistic.
Maria Enders : What makes you say that?
Valentine : If you find my point of view - uninteresting - I - I don't really know what I'm doing here. I can run lines with you but I don't really see the point. You can find anyone to do that.
Maria Enders : All I'm saying is that thinking about a text is different than living it. It's nothing against you.
Valentine : You hate the play. You hate her. You don't have to take it out on me. I'm just doing my job.
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Valentine : This is Berndt.
Berndt : Hi. Nice to meet you.
Maria Enders : Nice to meet you.
Valentine : You know those really - trashy photos I showed you of Lindsay Lohan. This guy's responsible.
Berndt : Well, I try to be more elegant today.
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Maria Enders : A sea of gray hair.
Valentine : Completely.
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Valentine : TMZ deemed her the A-list actress that dreamt of making it to the Z-list.
Maria Enders : You could have told me sooner!
Valentine : You despise internet gossip.
Maria Enders : This is not gossip. This is information.
Valentine : It's celebrity news.
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Waldhaus Hotel Concierge : Do you still want to see the snake? You asked me the other day.
Valentine : Oh, yeah.
Waldhaus Hotel Concierge : The weather they are predicting for tomorrow seems ideal. So, you better make sure you're out there at daybreak. It's wonderful to see - coming over the Maloja Pass.
Valentine : Great. Awesome. That's amazing. Thank you.
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Maria Enders : You can imagine anything you want. Are we going the right way? I mean, I don't mind waking up at the crack of dawn; but, not to get lost in the mountains and miss the snake.
Valentine : Well, we're basically here. You happy?
Maria Enders : What makes you think we're here?
Valentine : I've got a map!
