Cobb: Downwards is the only way forwards.
Fischer: After my mother died, you know what he told me? "Robert, there's really nothing to be said." Peter Browning: He was bad with emotions. Fischer: I was eleven.
Professor: Mr. Cobb has a job offer he would like to discuss with you. Ariadne: Like a work placement? Cobb: Not exactly.
Cobb: You create the world of the dream. We bring the subject into that dream and fill it with their subconscious. Ariadne: How could I ever acquire enough detail to make them think that it's reality? Cobb: Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in...
Ariadne: [contemplating her totem] An elegant solution for keeping track of reality.
Cobb: The moment's passed. Whatever I do I can't change this moment. I'm about to call out to them. They run away. If I'm ever going to see their faces I've gotta get back home. The real world.
Ariadne: Cobb, I'm coming with you. Cobb: I promised Miles... Ariadne: The team needs someone who understands what you're struggling with. And it doesn't have to be me, but then you have to show Arthur what I just saw. Cobb: [to Saito] Get us another...
Ariadne: I guess I thought the dream-space would be all about the visual, but it's more about the feeling. My question is what happens when you start messing with the physics of it.
Fischer: [handing his abductors his wallet] There's five hundred dollars in there. And the wallet's worth more than that.
Arthur: Cobb said you'd be back. Ariadne: I tried not to come, but... Arthur: But there's nothing quite like it. Ariadne: It's just... pure creation.
Cobb: There's no use threatening him in a dream, right, Mal? Mal: It depends on what you're threatening. Killing him will just wake him up. But pain... [shoots Arthur in the knee] Mal: Pain is in the mind, and judging by the decor we're in your mind,...
Ariadne: My subconscious seems polite enough. Arthur: Well wait, it'll turn ugly. No one wants to feel someone else messing around their mind.
Cobb: You got the basic layout. Bookstore, cafe, almost everything else is here too. Ariadne: Who are the people? Cobb: Projections of my subconscious. Ariadne: Yours? Cobb: Yes. Remember, you are the dreamer, you build this world. I am the subject, ...
Fischer: [to Saito, out of breath after evading an avalanche] Man, couldn't someone have dreamt up a goddamn beach? Huh?
Cobb: I came here to tell you... something. [pause] Cobb: Something that... you once knew to be true. Saito: [remembering] Impossible...
Cobb: You shouldn't be here. Ariadne: I just wanted to see what kind of tests you're doing on your own every night. Cobb: This has nothing to do with you. Ariadne: This has everything to do with me. You've asked me to share dreams with you. Cobb: Not...
Professor: Come back to reality, Dom.
Ariadne: These aren't just dreams, these are memories and you said never to use memories!
