Campana Quotes in La chèvre (1981)

The Captain: [Perrin has just had another accident] This must not be his day.

Campana: It's *never* his day.

Campana: [to Perrin] Life was a bore before I met you.

Meyer: [to Campana, talking about Perrin] He was hired two years ago. I tested him then; I've observed him since. He's phenomenal.

Campana: He looks normal, though.

Meyer: He was a seven-month baby, and guess what happened to his incubator? It broke down.

Campana: I don't believe in bad luck. Bullshit!

Meyer: You heard of Eugene Delacroix, the painter?

Campana: Yes.

Meyer: At three, he was nearly strangled by a curtain cord. Then his mosquito net caught fire; he was badly burned. While he was recovering, he was dropped into some water. By a miracle, he was saved but then he choked on some grapes. That is all absolutely true; Delacroix is an example of incredible bad luck.

François Perrin: [to Campana, talking about Mademoiselle Martin] I like her... she helped me up when I was electrocuted.

Campana: Electrocuted?

François Perrin: At the office, plugging in the orange juice machine.

[he looks up at Campana and smiles]

François Perrin: I got juice, all right.

Campana: [to Perrin] I don't believe in magic! I believe in logic! Do you know what logic is? I'm a rational, logical man! I don't rely on coincidence to solve a case!

Campana: [he's just realized that Perrin is sinking in quicksand] What's happening now?

François Perrin: I don't know... I'm sinking.

Campana: Why?

François Perrin: I don't know why.

Campana: Stop clowning when I talk to you!

François Perrin: I'm not clowning! I'm really sinking!

Campana: Why aren't *I* sinking?

François Perrin: You're on good sand and I'm in quicksand. *You're* the one who wanted a short cut!

Campana: And you don't even react?

François Perrin: If I do, I'll go in farther... everyone knows that!

Campana: Perrin, they didn't show any quicksand on the map!

François Perrin: Then it's time they did!

François Perrin: [Campana has just pulled Perrin out of the quicksand; Perrin laughs] Shit! I lost a shoe!

Campana: [slowly smiles and also laughs] Don't you ever rest?

Prisoner: [the guards are coming to their cell] Here they come! They'll pick one of us at random and beat him to a pulp! That's their idea of fun!

François Perrin: [to Campana] What'd he day?

Campana: [looks hard at Perrin] They'll beat one of us up.

[he keeps staring at Perrin]

François Perrin: [finally notices Campana staring at him] Why stare at me that way?

[Campana shrugs]

François Perrin: [he notices Campana's shoelace is untied] Your shoestring...

Campana: [kneels down to tie his shoelace; it breaks. He stares at it, then at Perrin, almost scared] I broke it!

François Perrin: It's no tragedy.

Campana: [standing up, staring at the broken shoelace in his hand] It's a sign.

François Perrin: A sign of what?

Campana: [pause, then] Never mind.

François Perrin: [to Campana] So much has happened to me since I met you.

Campana: [looks at Perrin, then] To me too.

Campana: [he hands Perrin his gun] You need this more than I do.

Campana: [they've arrived at the mission; it's a total ruin and deserted] Did an earthquake do this?

François Perrin: Or a tornado. It reminds me of my parents' house. They had one near Paris.

Campana: A tornado in Paris?

François Perrin: No, I left the gas on and...

[he flips a hand up to indicate what happened, then walks off. Campana stares after him]