Inception – Movie Quotes

— What do you feel?
— Guilt.
— I feel guilt, Mal. And no matter what I do, no matter how hopeless I am....no matter how confused, that guilt is always there...reminding me of the truth.

I specialize in a very specific type of security. Subconscious security.

Reality is not gonna be enough for her now.

— Mr. Saito, we can train your subconscious to defend itself from even the most skilled extractor.
— How can you do that?
— Because I am the most skilled extractor.

— Have you come to kill me? I am waiting for someone.
— Someone from a half-remembered dream.
— Cobb? Impossible. We were young men together. I am an old man.
— Filled with regret.
— Waiting to die alone.
— I have come back for you. To remind you of something. Something you once knew. That this world is not real.
— To convince me to honor our arrangement?
— To take a leap of faith, yes.
— Come back...so we can be young men together again.

I need an architect who's as good as I was.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Arthur: — Couldn't have peed before you went under?
Yusuf: — Sorry.
Eames: — Bit too much free champagne before takeoff?

— 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.

Never recreate from your memory. Always imagine new places.

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