Quills
2000 · 124 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 57,874 VOTES · DIR. Philip Kaufman
Overview
A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.
Dialogue Timeline — 733 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:40 Dear Reader:
00:05:34 Yes, Mother.
00:08:36 ...begging to be...
00:10:52 My colleagues have called me old-fashioned, even barbaric.
00:13:20 `Let me be your tutor,` said he, `in the ways of love.`
00:15:40 Wonderful.
00:19:49 ...as l am.
00:22:09 ...always runs more smoothly when it`s lubricated.
00:25:37 l`ve come merely to oversee your work here, understood?
00:27:32 Playing dress up with cretins sounds like a symptom of madness, not a cure.
00:29:21 But he`s one among some 200 wards!
00:31:26 And such puny scope!
00:33:10 -Do l have your word? -Honestly!
00:35:26 Thank God that fortune has spared you from such a fate.
00:39:18 ...to instruct you...
00:41:33 lsn`t that the new doctor? How thrilling.
00:45:17 Hurry, my child, and scurry inside
00:47:53 He wants to take me in every way
00:51:03 l hope you`re satisfied.
00:53:06 My writing is involuntary, like the beating of my heart.
00:55:09 -Stop making a spectacle of yourself. -You`ve come to lecture me?
00:57:07 On the modest sum you`ve accorded me-- l`m an architect, not a magician.
00:59:03 Opiates to quell his temper.
01:01:27 l don`t dare. The doctor`s got his eye on you sharper than ever now.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed733
Dialogue density5.9 lines / min
First line00:00:40
Final line01:01:27
Production Record
DirectorPhilip Kaufman
LanguageEnglish
Budget$13,500,000
Revenue$7,060,876
IMDb votes57,874