Their Finest * Quotes

"You and me given opportunities only because young men are gone. But to turn our back on those opportunities, wouldn't that be giving death dominion over life?"
[to Catrin]

"People like films because stories are a structure, and when things turn bad it's still part of a plan. There's a point to it."

"They're afraid they won't be able to put us back in the box when this is over, and it makes them belligerent."

"The thing about men who get sent away to war is, that some of them don't come back at all."

"If we were to capture the public imagination and their trust, we need a story to inspire a nation."

Tom Buckley: "Dunkirk - The evacuation of troops trapped by the German advance."
Catrin Cole: "It's very good."
Ambrose Hilliard: "I just wonder if it might impact a little more punch..."
Tom Buckley: "Dunkirk - The miracle that put the fire back in all our bellies."

Tom Buckley: "Mrs. Cole, we'll need someone to write the slop."
Catrin Cole: "Slop?"
Tom Buckley: "Girls talk. Women's dialogue."