The psychiatrist Quotes in You, the Living (2007)

The psychiatrist: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

[examines the large stack of patient's files]

The psychiatrist: I am a psychiatrist. I have been for 27 years. I'm completely worn out. Year after year, listening to patients who aren't satisfied with their lives, who want to have fun, who want me to help them with that - it wears you out, I can tell you. My life isn't exactly a lot of fun either. People demand so much. That's the conclusion I've drawn after all these years. They demand to be happy, at the same time as they are egocentric, selfish, and ungenerous. Well, I would like to be honest. I would like to say that they are quite simply mean, most of them. Spending hour after hour in therapy, trying to make a mean person happy... There's no point. You can't do it. I've stopped doing it. These days, I just prescribe pills. The stronger, the better.

The Psychiatrist: I want you to talk about women.

[waits for a few moments]

The Psychiatrist: Mr. Crown?

Thomas Crown: I'm sorry?

The Psychiatrist: Women. You get to talk about women.

Thomas Crown: Oh, I enjoy women.

The Psychiatrist: Enjoyment isn't intimacy.

Thomas Crown: And intimacy isn't necesarily enjoyment.

The Psychiatrist: How would you know? Has it occured to you that you have a problem with trust?

Thomas Crown: [smirking] I trust myself implicitly.

The Psychiatrist: But can other people trust you?

Thomas Crown: Oh, you mean society at large?

The Psychiatrist: I mean women, Mr.Crown.

Thomas Crown: Yes, a woman could trust me.

The Psychiatrist: Good. Under what extraordinary circumstances would you allow that to happen?

Thomas Crown: A woman could trust me as long as her interests didn't run too contrary to my own.

The Psychiatrist: And society? If ITS interests should run counter to your own?

[Crown smiles]

The Psychiatrist: [laughing] Peter Pan grows up, and discovers there's no place to land!