Shutter
Island
Quotes: Messes with Your Sanity!
(Total
Quotes: 115)
Shutter Island quotes take some attention as they mess with your head! The story is complex and can seem bleak at times but it never deters from delivering a great noir thriller, although some skeptics who've read the book may disagree. Shutter Island quotes will take time and effort to understand but in the end it's worth the effort. Take a look at these quotes and see if you agree.
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Written by: Laeta Kalogridis (screenplay)
Dennis Lehane (novel)
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio - Teddy Daniels
Mark Ruffalo - Chuck Aule
Ben Kingsley - Dr. John Cawley
Max von Sydow - Dr. Jeremiah Naehring
Michelle Williams - Dolores Chanal
Emily Mortimer - Rachel 1
Patricia Clarkson - Rachel 2
Jackie Earle Haley - George Noyce
Ted Levine - Warden
John Carroll Lynch - Deputy Warden McPherson
Elias Koteas - Laeddis
Robin Bartlett - Bridget Kearns
Christopher Denham - Peter Breene
Nellie Sciutto - Nurse Marino
Joseph Sikora - Glen Miga
Curtiss Cook - Trey Washington
Raymond Anthony Thomas - Orderly Ganton
Joseph McKenna - Inmate Billings
Matthew Cowles - Ferry Captain
Ruby Jerins - Little Girl
Tom Kemp - Ward C Guard
Shutter
Island Quotes Part
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[first lines; after
being sick, Teddy
washes his face and looks in the bathroom mirror]Teddy Daniels: Pull yourself together, Teddy! Pull yourself together.
[looking out the bathroom window]
Teddy Daniels: It's this water. It's a lot of water!
Chuck Aule: You okay, boss?
Teddy Daniels: Yeah, I'm fine. I just...uh...I just can't...can't stomach the water.
[looks at Chuck]
Teddy Daniels: So, you're my new partner?
Chuck Aule: That's right.
Teddy Daniels: Not the best way to meet, with my head half way down the toilet.
Chuck Aule: Doesn't exactly square with Teddy Daniels, the man, the legend, I'll give you that.
Teddy Daniels: The legend? What the hell you boys smokin' over there in Portland, anyway?
Chuck Aule: Seattle. I came from the office in Seattle.
Chuck Aule: So how about you? You gotta girl? Married?
Teddy Daniels: I was.
[flash back of his wife giving him a tie]
Teddy Daniels: She died.
Chuck Aule: Jesus...I...I...don..
Teddy Daniels: Nah, don't worry about it. There was a fire at the apartment building while I was at work. Four people died. It was the smoke that got her not the fire, so that's...that's important.
Chuck Aule: Sorry boss.
Teddy Daniels: Where are my goddamn cigarettes.
Chuck Aule: Well here, have one of mine.
Teddy Daniels: Could have sworn they were in my jacket before I...
Chuck Aule: Government employees will rob you blind.
Teddy Daniels: Give you a briefing about the institution before you left?
Chuck Aule: All I know is that it's a mental hospital.
Teddy Daniels: For the criminally insane.
Chuck Aule: Yeah, if it's just folks runnin' around hearing voices and chasin' after butterflies they wouldn't need us.
Ferry Captain: We'll be casting off as soon as you two are ashore. I'd appreciate it if you would hurry up about it.
Teddy Daniels: Why?
Ferry Captain: Storm's comin'.
[Teddy shows McPherson the Marshal badge on his belt]
Deputy Warden McPherson: Never seen a Marshal's badge before. I'm Deputy Warden McPherson. Gentlemen, welcome to Shutter Island. I'll be the one taking you to Ashecliffe.
Teddy Daniels: You boys seem a little on edge, Mr McPherson.
Deputy Warden McPherson: Right now Marshal, we all are.
[noticing the electric barbed wire around the edges of the institution]
Teddy Daniels: Electrified perimeter.
Chuck Aule: How can you tell?
Teddy Daniels: Seen somethin' like it before.
Deputy Warden McPherson: The red brick building on your right is Ward A, the male ward. Ward B, the female ward, is the one your left. Ward C, is that building on the bluffs, an old civil war fort, the most dangerous patients are housed there. Admittance to Ward C is forbidden without the written consent and physical presence of both myself and Dr. Cawley. Is that understood?
Teddy Daniels: You act like insanity is catchin'.
Deputy Warden McPherson: You are hereby required to surrender your firearms.
Teddy Daniels: Mr. McPherson, we are duly appointed Federal Marshals and we are required to carry our firearms with us at all times.
[when Teddy and Chuck
are reluctant
to hand over their guns]Deputy Warden McPherson: Gentlemen, you will not get through this gate with your firearms.
[reluctantly Teddy hands over his gun. Chuck struggles to get his gun out of his holster but finally releases it and hands it over]
Teddy Daniels: When did she escape, this prisoner?
Deputy Warden McPherson: I'm afraid Dr. Cawley will have to fill you in on the situation. Protocol.
Chuck Aule: Correctional Officers at a mental institution, that's a weird site if you don't mind me saying.
Deputy Warden McPherson: It's the only facility of it's kind in the U.S, even the world. We take only the most dangerous, damaged patients. Ones no other hospital can manage, and it's all due to Dr. Cawley. He's created somethin' real unique here.
Deputy Warden McPherson: Dr. Cawley's been consulted numerous times, by Scotland Yard, MI5, the OSS...
Teddy Daniels: Why?
Deputy Warden McPherson: What do you mean?
Teddy Daniels: What do intelligence agencies want to consult a psychiatrist about?
Deputy Warden McPherson: I guess you'll have to ask him.
[after McPherson leaves Teddy and Chuck in Cawley's office]
Chuck Aule: He had a lot to say about you.
Dr. John Cawley: McPherson's a good man, he believes in the work we do here.
Teddy Daniels: And what would that be exactly?
Dr. John Cawley: A moral fusion between law and order and clinical care.
Chuck Aule: Pardon me John, a what between what and what?
[Teddy's looking at old paintings of mental patients on Cawley's office wall]
Dr. John Cawley: Those paintings are quite accurate. It used to be the kind of patients we deal with here were shackled and left in their own filth. They were beaten, as if whipping them bloody would drive the psychosis out. We drove screws into their brains, we submerged in them in icy water until they lost consciousness or even drowned.
Chuck Aule: And now?
Dr. John Cawley: We treat them, try to heal, try to cure. And if that fails at least we provide them with a measure of comfort in their lives, calm.
Teddy Daniels: These are all violent offenders, right? They've hurt people, murdered them in some cases.
Dr. John Cawley: In almost all cases, yes.
Teddy Daniels: Then personally doctor I'd say screw their sense of calm.
Dr. John Cawley: My job is to treat my patients not their victims. I'm not here to judge.
Teddy Daniels: So this female prisoner...?
Dr. John Cawley: Patient.
Teddy Daniels: Excuse me, patient. One Rachel Solando, escaped some time in the last twenty four hours?
Dr. John Cawley:Last night, between then and midnight.
Chuck Aule: Is she considered dangerous?
Dr. John Cawley: You could say that. She killed all three of her children. She drowned them in the lake behind her house. She took them out one by one, held their heads under until they died, then she bought them back inside and arranged them round the kitchen table. She ate a meal there before a neighbor dropped by.
Teddy Daniels: And what about the husband?
Dr. John Cawley: He died, on the beaches of Normandy. She's a war widow. She starved herself when she first came here. She insisted the children weren't dead.
[Cawley shows Teddy photo's of Rachel]
Teddy Daniels: Sorry doctor, you don't happen to have an aspirin do ya?
Dr. John Cawley: Prone to headaches, Marshal?
Teddy Daniels: Sometimes, but today I'm a little more prone to sea sickness.
Dr. John Cawley: Rachel still believes the children are alive. She also believes this place is her home in the Berkshires.
Teddy Daniels: [laughing] You're kiddin' me?
Dr. John Cawley: Never once in two years acknowledged that she's in an institution, she believes we're all delivery men, milk men, postal workers. To sustain the delusion that the children never died, she's created an elaborate fictional structure. She gives us all parts to play in that fiction.
Teddy Daniels: So you...you searched the grounds yet?
Dr. John Cawley: Warden and his men scoured the island. Not a trace. What's more disturbing is we don't know how she got out of her room. It was locked from the outside and the only window's barred. It's as if she evaporated straight through the walls.
[to Cawley]
Teddy Daniels: Seriously doctor, how is it possible that the truth never gets through to her? I mean, she's in a mental institution, right? Seems like something you'd notice from time to time.
[to Teddy]
Dr. John Cawley: Sanity's not a choice, Marshal, you can't just choose to get over it.
[to Cawley after finding Rachel had left her shoes in her room]
Chuck Aule: She left here barefoot? Come on doc, she couldn't get ten yards in that terrain.
[examining the note Teddy's found hidden underneath the floor board in Rachel's room]
Teddy Daniels: Its not a psychiatric term?
Dr. John Cawley: No, I'm afraid not.
Chuck Aule: [Reads note] Who is 67? Fucked if I know.
Dr. John Cawley: I have to say that's quite close to my clinical conclusion.
Teddy Daniels: Think it's just random scribblings?
Dr. John Cawley: No, not at all. Rachel's smart, brilliant in fact. This paper could be important.
[goes to grab the note from Teddy]
Teddy Daniels: Excuse me doctor, but we're gonna have to hold on to this.
Dr. John Cawley: Last night there were seven men sitting at the base of those stairs playing stud poker, yet some how Rachel managed to slip past them.
Chuck Aule: How? She turns invisible?
Teddy Daniels: Doctor, we're gonna need access to the personnel files of all the medical staff. The nurses, the guards, the orderlies, anyone who was working that...
Dr. John Cawley: We'll take your request under consideration.
Teddy Daniels: This is not a request, doctor. This is a federal facility and a dangerous prisoner...
Dr. John Cawley: Patient.
Teddy Daniels: Patient, has escaped now. You will comply or you...
Dr. John Cawley: All I can say is I'll see what I can do.
Teddy Daniels: Doctor, we're gonna need to speak with the staff. Do you understand?
Dr. John Cawley: I'll assemble them in the common room after dinner. If you have any further questions feel free to join the Deputy Warden in the search.
[checking the rocks near the shore of the island]
Deputy Warden McPherson: It's eleven miles to the nearest land and the water's freezing. Current was strong last night, tide pushin' in, she'
d
had drowned or crushed on the rocks and her body would have
washed back up on shore. Teddy Daniels: What about those caves down there? Have you checked them?
Deputy Warden McPherson: No way she could get there. The base of those cliffs are covered in poison ivy, live oak, sumac, thousand plants with thorns as big as my dick. You said yourself Marshal, she's got no shoes.
Teddy Daniels: What's that tower?
Deputy Warden McPherson: It's an old light house. The guards already searched inside it.
Teddy Daniels: What's in there? More patients?
Deputy Warden McPherson: Sewage treatment facility.
[staff are gathered in the common room where they are being questioned by Teddy and Chuck]
Glen Miga: Sir, I didn't see nothin'.
Teddy Daniels: You were...and you were at your post all night?
Glen Miga: Yeah, but I didn't see a thing.
[Glen looks down, making no eye contact]
Teddy Daniels: Glen. Glen. Tell me the truth.
Glen Miga: I...I maybe went to the bathroom.
Dr. John Cawley: What? You breached protocol, for Christ...
Glen Miga: I wasn't gone for more than a minute.
[to the staff]
Teddy Daniels: Let's all just back up. Miss Solando was put in her room for lights out. Does anyone here know what she did before that? Anyone?
[nobody answers]
Teddy Daniels: Come on! Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?
Nurse Marino: She was in a group therapy session.
Teddy Daniels: Huh. Anything unusual occur?
Nurse Marino: Define unusual.
Teddy Daniels: Excuse me?
Nurse Marino: This is a mental institution, Marshal, for the criminally insane. Usual isn't a big part of our day.
Teddy Daniels: I will rephrase. Did anything happen last night, during group therapy that was more, let' say...I don't know...memorable than...
Nurse Marino: ...normal?
Teddy Daniels: Exactly.
Nurse Marino: No, sorry.
Teddy Daniels: Did Miss Solando say anything during group therapy?
Nurse Marino: She was worried about the rain and she hated the food here.
[all the staff laugh]
Nurse Marino: Complained constantly, last night included.
Teddy Daniels: So you...you were there, was there a doctor present?
Nurse Marino: Yes, Dr. Sheehan led the discussion.
Teddy Daniels: Dr. Sheehan?
Nurse Marino: Yes, he was running the session. He's Rachel's primary, the psychiatrist who directly oversees her care.
Teddy Daniels: We're gonna need to speak with Dr. Sheehan.
Dr. John Cawley: I'm afraid that won't be possible. He left on the ferry this morning. His vacation was already planned, he'd been putting it off too long.
Chuck Aule: You're in a state of lock down. A dangerous patient has escaped and you let her primary doctor leave on vacation?
Dr. John Cawley: Well, of course. He's a doctor.
[the staff laugh]
Teddy Daniels: Do you have phone number for where he's gone?
Dr. John Cawley: I'm afraid I have evening rounds in the wards, but I'll be having drinks and a cigar at my house around nine if you care to drop by.
Teddy Daniels: Good, we can talk then, right?
Dr. John Cawley: We have been talking, Marshal.
[in Cawley's house]
Chuck Aule: Nice music. Who is that, Brahms?
Teddy Daniels: No. It's Mahler.
Dr. John Cawley: Quite right, Marshal.
Dr. John Cawley: Your poison, gentlemen?
Chuck Aule: Rye, if you got it.
Teddy Daniels: Soda on ice please, thanks.
Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Oh, you don't indulge in alcohol? I'm surprised. Isn't it common for men in your profession to imbibe?
Teddy Daniels: Common enough. And...and yours?
Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: I'm sorry?
Teddy Daniels: Your profession, doctor, psychiatry?
Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Yes?
Teddy Daniels: I always heard it was over run with boozers and drunks.
Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Not that I've notices.
Teddy Daniels: What's that, ice tea in your glass there?
[Cawley and Naehring laugh]
Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Excellent, Marshal. You have outstanding defense mechanisms. You must be quite adept at interrogations...hmm?
Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Men like you are my specialty, you know? Men of violence
Chuck Aule: Now, that's a hell of an assumption to make.
Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: No assumption, not all. You misunderstand me, I said you are men of violence. I am not accusing of being violent men, that's quite different.
Teddy Daniels: No, please, please, edify us doctor.
Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: You both served overseas?
Chuck Aule: Not much of a stretch doc, for all you know we were both paper pushers over there.
Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: No, you were not.
Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Since the school yard, neither of you has ever walked away from a physical conflict. No...not of course you enjoy it but because retreat isn't something you'd consider an option.
Chuck Aule: We weren't raised to run doc.
Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Ah...yes, raised. And who raised you, Marshal?
Teddy Daniels: Me? Wolves.
[Cawley and Naehring laugh]
Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Very impressive defence mechanisms.
Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Do you believe in god, Marshal?
[Teddy looks at Naehring and laughs]
Teddy Daniels: Das glaube ich. [translation; 'I believe it']
Teddy Daniels: You ever uh...seen a death camp, doctor?
[Naehring shakes his head]
Teddy Daniels: Ein konzentration lagger? [translation; 'a concentration camp']
Teddy Daniels: No? Ich war dabei, bei der Befreiung von Dachau. Ihr english, lhr english ist sehr gut. Fast Perfekt.
[translation; I was at the liberation of Dachau. Your English is very good. Almost Perfect]
Teddy Daniels: His English is very good. You hit the consonants a tad high though.
Chuck Aule: You're a German?
Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Is legal immigration a crime, Marshal?
Teddy Daniels: Oh, I don't know, doctor. You tell us.
Teddy Daniels: No, listen we're gonna need those files on Dr. Sheehan and the rest of the staff as well.
Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: No personnel files will be released to you. Period
Teddy Daniels: We're gonna need those files.
Dr. Jeremiah Naehring: Out of the question.
Teddy Daniels: BULLSHIT! OUT OF THE QUESTION! Bullshit! Just who the hell is in charge here, anyway huh? Huh?
Dr. John Cawley: Dr. Naehring acts as liason to our board of overseers. He relayed your request and it's been refused.
Teddy Daniels: Refused? They don't have the authority to refuse.
[looks at Naehring]
Teddy Daniels: And neither do you, sir.
Dr. John Cawley: Marshal, continue your investigation and we'll do all we can to help.
Teddy Daniels: This investigation is over. We're gonna file our reports and we're gonna hand it over to...em...
Chuck Aule: Hoover's boys.
Teddy Daniels: Hoover's boys, that's right. We're taking the ferry back in the morning. Come on, Chuck.
Chuck Aule: Hey boss, are we really packing it in?
Teddy Daniels: Why?
Chuck Aule: I guess, I dunno, I just...never really quit anything before.
Teddy Daniels: We haven't heard the truth once yet, Chuck. Rachel Solando didn't slip out of a locked cell barefoot without any help. I think she had a lot of help. Maybe, Cawley's sittin' up in his mansion right now re-thinkin' his whole attitude. Maybe in the morning...
Chuck Aule: You're bluffing?
Teddy Daniels: I didn't say that.
[Teddy's dreaming of his wife in an apartment standing in front of a window holding a whiskey bottle]
Dolores Chanal: I found a whole stack of these
,
Teddy. Jesus, are you ever sober anymore?Teddy Daniels: I killed a lot of people in the war.
Dolores Chanal: Is that why you drink?
Teddy Daniels: Are you real?
[the whiskey bottle in her hand disappears]
Dolores Chanal: No. She's still here.
Teddy Daniels: Who? Rachel?
Dolores Chanal: She never left.
[in Teddy's dream Dolores walks over to the living room bay window and looks out the window]
Dolores Chanal: Remember when we stayed in the cabin in the summer, Teddy? We were so happy. She's here, you can't leave.
[Teddy comes up behind her and put his arms around her waist]
Teddy Daniels: I'm not gonna leave. I love you so much.
Dolores Chanal: I'm just bones in a box, Teddy.
Teddy Daniels: No.
Dolores Chanal: I am. You have to wake up.
Teddy Daniels: I won't go. You're here...
Dolores Chanal: I'm not. You have to face that. But she is...and so is he.
Teddy Daniels: Who?
Dolores Chanal: Laeddis. I have to go.
Teddy Daniels: No! No! Please, please, I need to hold on to you. Just a little bit longer...
Dolores Chanal: Oh god, please. You have to let me go.
Teddy Daniels: I can't.
[Teddy tries to hold on closer but Dolores disappears into ashes]
[calling out to Cawley]
Teddy Daniels: Doctor, doctor, doctor, we need to interview the patients who were in Rachel's group therapy session.
Dr. John Cawley: I thought your investigation was finished?
Teddy Daniels: Well, it's not like we can take the ferry.
[he points to the storm going on outside seen through windows]
Teddy Daniels: Now was Rachel receiving any other treatment for her illnesses?
Dr. John Cawley: Do you know the state of the mental health field these days, gentlemen?
Teddy Daniels: No, not a clue doctor.
Dr. John Cawley: War. The old school believes in surgical intervention, psycho surgery, procedures like the trans orbital lobotomy. Some say the patients become reasonable, docile. Others say they become zombies.
Chuck Aule: And the new school?
Dr. John Cawley: Psycho pharmacology. A new drug has just been approved called Thorazine, which relaxes psychotic patients, you could say tames them.
Teddy Daniels: And which school are you, doctor?
Dr. John Cawley: Me? I have this radical idea that if you treat a patient with respect, listen to him, try and understand, you just might reach him.
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