Inception – Movie Quotes

You are waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don't know for sure. But it doesn't matter because you will be together.

Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them, right? It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

What is the most resilient parasite?
A bacteria? A virus?
An intestinal worm?
An idea.
Resilient. Highly contagious.
Once an idea has taken hold of the brain, it's almost impossible to eradicate.
An idea that is fully formed, fully understood, that sticks.

— Don't think about elephants. What are you thinking about?
— Elephants.

An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. And the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define... or destroy you.

You never really remember the beginning of a dream, do you? You always wind up right in the middle of what's going on.

No idea is simple when you need to plant it in somebody else's mind.

— Who'd want to be stuck in a dream for 10 years?
— Depends on the dream.

Never recreate from your memory. Always imagine new places.

Positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time. We all yearn for reconciliation, for catharsis.

— You draw from stuff you know, right?
— Only use details. A streetlamp or a phone booth. Never entire areas.
— Why not?
— Building a dream from your memor is the easiest way to lose your grasp on what's real and what is a dream.

If you can steal an idea from someone's mind... why can't you plant one there instead?

The subject's mind can always trace the genesis of the idea. True inspiration's impossible to fake.

It will take more than the occasional stuffed animal... ...to convince those children they still have a father.

— They come here every day to sleep?
— No. They come to be woken up. The dream has become their reality.

— Once you have lost your tail. The man at the bar.
— That price on my head, was that dead or alive Don't remember.
— Let's see if he starts shooting.