Their Finest

"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."

Tom Buckley: "Too long, lose half."
Catrin Cole: "Which half?"
Tom Buckley: "The half, that you don't need."
Catrin Cole: [sighs]

Ambrose Hilliard: "Uncle Frank, a shipwreck of a man. 60s, looks older."
Sammy Smith: "We all have a part to play in defeating Hitler."
Ambrose Hilliard: "Not this part! It's a corpse role... he's dead before the end of act three."

Catrin Cole: "I thought it was a secretarial post."
Phyl Moore: "Oh, for God's sake, keep that to yourself."

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

Tom Buckley: "We know how it starts. Twin sisters took their father's yacht over to join the rescue. We know how it ends: 338,000 ... "
Raymond Parfitt: "... home safe!"
Tom Buckley: "Now all we have to do is fill in the gaps."

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."

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