Dr. Ewen Cameron Quotes in The Sleep Room (1998)

Dr. Ewen Cameron: The rules that come with mental patients are that a third get better, a third get worse and a third remain the same. Do you know what I mean by that?

Nurse Stephens: No, I'm sorry, I don't.

Dr. Ewen Cameron: Psychiatry is smoke'n'mirrors and mumbo-jumbo. My degree isn't worth the paper that it's written on!

[sits on piano angrily]

Nurse Stephens: We didn't get the Smith money did we?

Dr. Ewen Cameron: We didn't deserve the goddamn money! Wilder Penfield got it!

[wolfs down a whole cup of alcohol]

Dr. Ewen Cameron: Well at least he does research.

Nurse Stephens: You are a great doctor.

Dr. Ewen Cameron: I am a great pencil-pusher, that's what I am: a glorified nanny.

Nurse Stephens: That is not true. You opened the door. You let the light in. You treat your patients as if they were human beings. You have created the best mental hospital in North America. What more do you want?

Dr. Ewen Cameron: Well, I want to cure somebody.

Dr. Ewen Cameron: I am simply repeating what you told me. You think your father is good looking...

Nathalie Belding: I never said he was good looking.

Dr. Ewen Cameron: 'Course you did.

Nathalie Belding: No I didn't!

Dr. Ewen Cameron: Natalie!

Nathalie Belding: I did not say that.

Dr. Ewen Cameron: [plays tape recorder] Now, are we agreed that you said it?

Nathalie Belding: I never said that.

Dr. Ewen Cameron: [replays tape recorder] Well? Natalie, is he handsome?

[replays]

Dr. Ewen Cameron: I've met the man. And I thought he was handsome.

Nathalie Belding: Could you please... stop that?

Dr. Ewen Cameron: Certainly. As soon as you admit to what you said.

Nathalie Belding: [replays many times, Natalie becomes jittery] The tape doesn't lie, lass. Come on, Natalie!

Nathalie Belding: Stop it!

Dr. Ewen Cameron: Admit what you said! I could do this all day, Natalie.

[replays and recites the quote]

Nathalie Belding: Alright! I wanna screw my daddy and he wants to screw me too!