The Quiet Ones (2014)

Jared Harris: Professor Joseph Coupland

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• Professor Joseph Coupland : Why do I get the impression this is about to get unpleasant?

• Krissi Dalton : Joseph, I'm scared.

  Professor Joseph Coupland : It means you're alive.

• Professor Joseph Coupland : What is the supernatural? Hm? Anyone?

  Female Student : Like ghosts or spirits or devils?

  Professor Joseph Coupland : Those examples.

  Female Student : Actions or events which we can not explain through science.

  Professor Joseph Coupland : Good. Before the discovery of a pathogenic theory of medicine, people believed that sickness was caused by evil spirits. Show of hands - if you get sick, who here would rather see a priest before a doctor.

  [students laugh] 

  Professor Joseph Coupland : Who here believes in God? Heaven? Hell? The apocalypse? Ghosts? Really? No one here believes in ghosts? interesting.

• Professor Joseph Coupland : What if you could prove that the supernatural was merely a manifestation of what already exists in the mind, the subconscious?

• Professor Joseph Coupland : We cure one patient, we cure all mankind.

• Professor Joseph Coupland : Take your hands out of his trousers now, please.

• Professor Joseph Coupland : Your job would be to document every step of the experiment. I hope you don't scare easily.