The Pianist (2002 film) Quotes

The Pianist (2002 film) is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . The Pianist completed its run in 1970.

It features Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa, and Alain Sarde as producer, Wojciech Kilar in charge of musical score, and Paweł Edelman as head of cinematography.

The Pianist (2002 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in France, Germany, Poland, and United Kingdom. Each episode of The Pianist (2002 film) is 150 minutes long. The Pianist (2002 film) is distributed by Focus Features, and StudioCanal.

The cast includes: Adrien Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman, Ed Stoppard as Henryk Szpilman, Thomas Kretschmann as Captain Wilm Hosenfeld, Jessica Kate Meyer as Halina, Emilia Fox as Dorota, Michał Żebrowski as Jurek, Julia Rayner as Regina, Daniel Caltagirone as Majorek, Roy Smiles as Itzak Heller, and Richard Ridings as Mr. Lipa.

The Pianist (2002 film) Quotes

Adrien Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman

• (Adrien Brody) "Its too small. There's 400,000 of us in Warsaw."
• (Ed Stoppard) "No, there's 360,000. So it will be easy."

• (Adrien Brody) "I love to see a woman playing the cello."

• (Adrien Brody) "So, you play the cello, Dorota. That's nice. And who's your favorite composer? Chopin? Really? Well, you'll have to learn to play his cello sonata, won't you? And what about you, Wladek? Well, perhaps I can accompany? Me on the piano, you on the cello?"
• (Emilia Fox) "Mr. Szpilman, you are quite, quite wonderful."
• (Adrien Brody) "Call me Wladek. Please."

• (Adrien Brody) "What are you reading?"
• (Ed Stoppard) ""If you prick us, do we not bleed? It you tickle us, we we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?""
• (Adrien Brody) "Very appropriate."

• (Adrien Brody) "Where are we going?"
• (Mother) "Phhhhh, out of Warsaw."
• (Adrien Brody) "Out of Warsaw? Where?"
• (Julia Rayner) "You haven't heard?"
• (Adrien Brody) "Heard what?"
• (Julia Rayner) "Haven't you seen the paper?"
• (Adrien Brody) "No."
• (Julia Rayner) "Ah, where's the paper?"
• (Jessica Kate Meyer) "I used it for packing."
• (Julia Rayner) "Ah, she used it for packing."

• (Adrien Brody) "What does my tie have to do with anything? I need it for work."

• (Adrien Brody) "No. Please. I'm Polish. I'm not a German."
• (Unnamed) "Then why the f***ing coat?"
• (Adrien Brody) "I'm cold."

• (Adrien Brody) "It's a funny time to say this, but --"
• (Jessica Kate Meyer) "What?"
• (Adrien Brody) "I wish I knew you better."

• (Adrien Brody) "Here, sell this. Food is more important than time."

• (Adrien Brody) "I don't know how to thank you."
• (Thomas Kretschmann) "Thank God, not me. He wants us to survive. Well, that's what we have to believe."

Jessica Kate Meyer as Halina

• (Jessica Kate Meyer) "We could hide the money. Look here. We can hide the money under the flower pots."
• (Father) "No, no, no, no, I'll tell you what we do. We use tried and tested methods. You know what we did in the last war? We made a hole in the table leg"
• (Father) "and hid the money in there."
• (Ed Stoppard) "And suppose they take the table away?"
• (Father) "What do you mean, take the table away?"
• (Ed Stoppard) "The Germans go into Jewish homes and they just take what they want, furniture, valuable, anything."
• (Mother) "Do they?"
• (Father) "Idiot, what would they want with a table, a table like this?"
• (Mother) "What on earth are you doing."
• (Jessica Kate Meyer) "No, listen. This is the best place for it. No-one would think of looking under the flower pots."
• (Ed Stoppard) "No, no, no, listen, listen to me, I've been thinking --"
• (Adrien Brody) "Oh, really? That's a change."
• (Ed Stoppard) "You know what we do? We use psychology."
• (Adrien Brody) "We use what ?"
• (Ed Stoppard) "We leave the money and the watch on the table, and we cover it like this, in full view."
• (Adrien Brody) "Are you stupid?"
• (Ed Stoppard) "The Germans will search high and low, I promise you, they'll never notice."
• (Adrien Brody) "That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen, of course they'll notice it. Look."
• (Adrien Brody) "Look here -- idiot."
• (Ed Stoppard) "And you call me stupid?"
• (Mother) "No, that is very good, because that is the last place they will ever look."
• (Ed Stoppard) "This will take hours."
• (Mother) "We're not in a hurry, we'll get it back --"
• (Adrien Brody) "It won't take hours."
• (Ed Stoppard) "How will you get them out? Tell me that, tell me how, I'd like to know, how would you get them out. You take each one out individually --"
• (Jessica Kate Meyer) "No-one listens to me, no-one."

• (Jessica Kate Meyer) "Have you seen this?"
• (Adrien Brody) "What? What? I'm working. What? What is this?"
• (Jessica Kate Meyer) "It's where they're going to put us."
• (Adrien Brody) "What do you mean "put us"?"

• (Wailing Woman) "Why did I do it? Why did I do it? Why did I do it?"
• (Jessica Kate Meyer) "She's getting on my nerves. What did she do, for God's sake?"
• (Father) "She smothered her baby."

Emilia Fox as Dorota

• (Emilia Fox) "I nagged Jurek for weeks and weeks, and at last he gave in and said, "Allright, come with me tomorrow." So I came and -- they bombed the station."
• (Adrien Brody) "Meeting you like that was absolutely wonderful."
• (Emilia Fox) "Really?"
• (Adrien Brody) "Yes. It was -- it was unforgettable."

• (Emilia Fox) "I'll get a doctor."
• (Dorota's Husband) "You can't, it's too dangerous."
• (Emilia Fox) "I'll get Doctor Laczek, we can trust him."
• (Dorota's Husband) "Dorota, don't be ridiculous, he's a pediatrician."
• (Emilia Fox) "He's still a doctor."

• (Emilia Fox) "No-one play Chopin like you."
• (Adrien Brody) "I hope that's a compliment."

• (Emilia Fox) "Mr. Szpilman?"
• (Adrien Brody) "Hello."
• (Emilia Fox) "Oh, I came specially to meet you. I love your playing."
• (Adrien Brody) "Who are you?"
• (Emilia Fox) "My name is Dorota. I, I'm Jurek's sister -- You're bleeding."

Michał Żebrowski as Jurek

• (Michał Żebrowski) "Come on Dorota, you can write him a fan letter later, this isn't the best time. Come on."
• (Adrien Brody) "Jurek. Where have you been hiding her?"

Ed Stoppard as Henryk Szpilman

• (Ed Stoppard) "I told her not to worry, you had your papers on you. If you'd been hit by a bomb, they'd have known where to take you."

• (Ed Stoppard) "Ah, more Jewish police. You mean you want me to beat up Jews and catch the Gestapo spirit? I see."

• (Ed Stoppard) "I won't wear it."
• (Julia Rayner) "I won't wear it. I'm not going to be branded."

• (Ed Stoppard) "I thought you only recruited boys with rich fathers. Look at my father, look at us."
• (Roy Smiles) "Yes, I'm looking at you, and that's why I'm here. Your whole family can have a better life. You want to go on struggling for survival, selling books on the street?"
• (Ed Stoppard) "Yes, please."

• (Ed Stoppard) "What's the matter with you all, huh? You lost your sense of humor?"
• (Adrien Brody) "That's not funny."
• (Ed Stoppard) "Well, you know what's funny? You're funny, with that ridiculous tie."
• (Adrien Brody) "What're you talking about my tie for? What does my tie have to do with anything? I need this tie for my work."
• (Ed Stoppard) "Oh, your work."
• (Adrien Brody) "Yes, that's right, I work."
• (Ed Stoppard) "Yes, yes, your work. Playing the piano for the parasites in the ghetto."
• (Adrien Brody) "Parasites --"
• (Ed Stoppard) "Yes, parasites. They don't give a damn about people suffering."
• (Adrien Brody) "And you blame me for their apathy, right?"
• (Ed Stoppard) "I do, because I see it everyday. They don't even notice what's going on around them."
• (Father) "I blame the Americans."
• (Adrien Brody) "For what, for my tie?"

Roy Smiles as Itzak Heller

• (Roy Smiles) "What do you think you're doing Szpilman? I saved your life. Now go. Get out."
• (Roy Smiles) "Don't run."

Richard Ridings as Mr. Lipa

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Daniel Caltagirone as Majorek

• (Yehuda) "These will start the uprising. Majorek hides them in his underpants, and leaves them in toilets."
• (Daniel Caltagirone) "As many toilets as I can find. Germans never use Jewish toilets. They're too clean for them."

Julia Rayner as Regina

• (Julia Rayner) "Quiet please. Quiet. Order, order. Please."
• (Jessica Kate Meyer) "She's a lawyer, she likes order."
• (Julia Rayner) "Listen, just listen. The watch we put under the flower pots and the money we stuff in the violin."
• (Father) "Will I still be able to play?"
• (Adrien Brody) "Well -- you'll find out."

Thomas Kretschmann as Captain Wilm Hosenfeld

• (Thomas Kretschmann) "What is your name? So I can listen for you."
• (Adrien Brody) "My name is Szpilman."
• (Thomas Kretschmann) "Spielmann? That is a good name, for a pianist."

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