The Walk

Philippe Petit: "My head is full of doubts and when it's time to step on the wire I don't know if I will be able to take my first step."
Annie Allix: "Your heart will tell you what to do."

Papa Rudy: "You're going to wear a safety belt underneath your costume attached to a safety line."
Philippe Petit: "I am not going to do this walk with a safety line hanging off from me!"
Papa Rudy: "From that height it will be invisible, no one will have any idea!"

"This is extremely illegal, not to mention dangerous."

U.S. Customs Officer: "Welcome to New York. Anything to declare?"
Philippe Petit: "I'm going to hang a high wire between the two towers of the World Trade Center and walk on it."
U.S. Customs Officer: "Hah! Good luck."

"No matter where I was going, or what I was doing, I was always searching, looking for the perfect place to hang my wire."

"This isn't a game, Philippe. One mistake out there and you're going to die."

"Years ago you told me something I always remember. You said you cannot lie on stage, the audience will always know what is inside your heart."

Philippe Petit: "Two magnificent towers, one hundred meters taller than the Eiffel Tower itself. What do you think?"
Annie Allix: "I don't know. It looks so... so..."
Philippe Petit: "Beautiful."
Annie Allix: "Beautiful, yes. And dangerous, and completely insane, and you're a mad man."
Philippe Petit: "Yes, I'm a mad man. But this... this is my dream."
Annie Allix: "Then if it's your dream you must do it."
Philippe Petit: "But even if everybody tells me I'm mad?"
Annie Allix: "Well you shouldn't care about what other people think."
Philippe Petit: "Okay, but I care what you think."