The Woman in the Window Best Quotes

Starring: Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julianne Moore, Fred Hechinger

OUR RATING: ★★½

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Netflix mystery thriller directed by Joe Wright. The Woman in the Window (2021) follows Dr. Anna Fox (Amy Adams), an agoraphobic psychologist, who befriends a neighbor, Jane (Julianne Moore), only to see her own life turned upside down when Jane disappears and she suspects foul play.

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Best Quotes

Ed: [over phone] Tell me something good.
Anna Fox: Something good.

Anna Fox: I wish you were here.
Ed: Who does that help, saying that?
Anna Fox: I can beat myself up if I want.
Ed: Go for it. It’s just an audience of one. I’m not playing.

Anna Fox: Tell me to go outside.
Ed: Why not make today the day you go outside?

Dr. Landy: Curiosity is evidence of a decreased depression pattern.
Anna Fox: People who snoop on their neighbors don’t kill themselves?
Dr. Landy: Let’s try this. People who attempt suicide lose the right to joke about it.

Ethan Russell: [to Anna] I can see your house from my room. I mean, normally. Right now, I can see my dad from your house.

Ethan Russell: I don’t know anyone here.
Anna Fox: You know me.
Ethan Russell: Not really.
Anna Fox: Well, you could.
Ethan Russell: Really? We can be friends?
Anna Fox: Sure.

Anna Fox: You’re Jane Russell.
Jane Russell 1: What makes you say that?
Anna Fox: Your son came by. Ethan.

Anna Fox: I can’t go outside.
Jane Russell 1: You didn’t go outside.
Anna Fox: No, I get panic attacks.
Jane Russell 1: Who doesn’t?

Anna Fox: I’m agoraphobic. I can’t go outside.
Jane Russell 1: Oh! Oh. You’re stuck inside this s**tty house. Oh. Oh, man. I’d hate to be stuck inside a house this s**tty.

Anna Fox: I counsel people.
Jane Russell 1: You counsel people? Oh, you’re a shrink. Oh! That’s a twist.

Jane Russell 1: Do you want to go outside?
Anna Fox: You know, I have a shrink of my own.
Jane Russell 1: Okay. Okay. I get it. I get it. Alright, sorry. That sounds very wise.

Jane Russell 1: Notice I’m not asking what made you this way.
Anna Fox: What way?
Jane Russell 1: Agoraphobic.
Anna Fox: I have anxiety. I have an anxiety disorder.

Jane Russell 1: [shows Anna a baby photo] He’s my guy. My little baby guy. You know, when you have a kid, you say, you know, “My kid. My guy,” You know, like he’s yours, like he belongs to you. That’s not really how it feels.
Anna Fox: You belong to them.
Jane Russell 1: Right. Right. You belong to them. And maybe you never belonged to anybody before. I mean, maybe you thought you belonged to your parents. You grew out of that. You certainly didn’t belong to your husband. Then this kid comes along, and he’s just got you. I don’t have to tell you that.

Anna Fox: I like your earrings.
Jane Russell 1: Oh. Oh, thanks, yeah. A gift. They’re a gift from an old boyfriend.
Anna Fox: Does your husband mind?
Jane Russell 1: I doubt he knows. He has trust issues.

Jane Russell 1: I worry about Ethan, because he’s sensitive. Family is complicated.
Anna Fox: Why is your family complicated?

Jane Russell 1: See how I changed the subject on you?
Anna Fox: I did.
Jane Russell 1: Yeah, you don’t know who you’re fooling with.

Dispatcher: [on the phone] 911, what’s your emergency?
Anna Fox: I think there’s somebody in my house.

Anna Fox: I didn’t know you were a handyman. I thought you were a singer-songwriter.
David: Which is why I am a handyman.

Alistair Russell: [over phone] Sorry, you heard what?
Anna Fox: A scream. A scream. A minute ago.
Alistair Russell: A scream?
Anna Fox: Yeah, from your house.
Alistair Russell: Sorry, the only people here are me and my boy. And we didn’t scream.

Anna Fox: Ethan, what’s going on over there?
Ethan Russell: He’s not a bad guy. He has a lot of stress. It builds up in him, and has to get it out. It’s alright!
Anna Fox: It’s not alright. Stop saying it’s alright. It’s clearly not alright.

Ethan Russell: Why are you so nice to me?
Anna Fox: Because children need protection.

Anna Fox: Look, Ethan, whatever is going on over there, no matter how bad it gets, this is a safe place. You can always come here. Always.

Ed: Don’t go look into other people’s houses.
Anna Fox: Karl says that curiosity is healthy.
Ed: And you said he was getting off on controlling you.
Anna Fox: And you said we could talk whenever I wanted to.

Anna Fox: I’m watching David leave the house.
Dr. Landy: Looks like fun, right?
Anna Fox: Looks like he’s escaping.

Dispatcher: 911 operator, what’s your emergency?
Anna Fox: My neighbor, Jane, she’s been stabbed.

Dispatcher: Are you with your neighbor now?
Anna Fox: She is across the street. I told you that, and you are not listening to me!
Dispatcher: Anna! Ma’am. Anna, did you stab your neighbor?

Anna Fox: What is this?
Detective Norelli: Ma’am, you alright?
Anna Fox: Why is he here?
Detective Little: Mr. Russell believes that you made a mistake.
Alistair Russell: You have never met my wife.
Anna Fox: She helped me one night. We spent the evening together.

Anna Fox: No! I know what I saw!
Detective Little: Nothing’s happened to anyone.

Anna Fox: Then where is she? Where’s Jane?
Jane Russell 2: [enters the room] I’m sorry we haven’t met. I’m Jane Russell.
Anna Fox: She’s not Jane.
Jane Russell 2: I promise I am.
Anna Fox: No, you’re not Jane. She’s not Jane. I know Jane. Jane’s been in my house.
Alistair Russell: This is absurd.

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Anna Fox: Tell them.
Ethan Russell: You’ve never met my mother.
Alistair Russell: Well, this has been great fun. See you at the block party.

Ed: [over phone] Why didn’t you take a picture?
Anna Fox: I was trying to help her. Not record it for posterity. Are you doubting me too?
Ed: I’m on your side.
Anna Fox: You don’t sound like it.

Ed: But it’s understandable why they don’t believe you.
Anna Fox: Because I didn’t take a picture.
Ed: Because you’re not healthy. And I’m not sure you’re getting better.

Jane Russell 2: [on Anna’s answering machine] I think you know who I am. Stop watching our house, or I’ll call the police.

Anna Fox: [over phone] I’m not delusional.
Ed: Then break it down, Slugger. First it’s the boy, then that murder across the street. Now there’s another woman in Boston. An earring, and f***ing David, who you always liked.

Ed: There’s nothing here for you, and you know it. You’ve got to move on.
Anna Fox: I can’t!
Ed: Why not?
Anna Fox: I don’t know. I’m just not made that way. I wish to God I could, believe me, but I can’t. Everyone else can move on. I can’t!

Ethan Russell: I told, you’ve never met my mother!
Anna Fox: You were lying, and you know it.
Ethan Russell: You’re just confused.
Anna Fox: No. I know what I saw.
Ethan Russell: You don’t. You’re just wrong.
Anna Fox: I know what I saw!

Anna Fox: Why are you lying for him?! Ethan. Why are you protecting him?
Ethan Russell: I can’t tell you.

Alistair Russell: I’ve put up with a lot, Mrs. Fox, all of us have. But this, this stops now. Your relationship with Ethan, it’s inappropriate. He’s a young man! He’s a boy! He’s fifteen and a half, and you’re a mature woman! And of course, you’re completely out of your goddamn mind!

Anna Fox: I’ll call the police!
Alistair Russell: Go. Go ahead. Go ahead. I’m sure they’d love hearing from you. A drunken, shut-in, pill-popping cat lady! You’re f***ing with the wrong family. Stay away from my son!

Alistair Russell: You are a drunk, and a drug addict, and you made it all up!
Anna Fox: You almost had me believing that, and then I found this.
Alistair Russell: What’s this?
Anna Fox: This is a picture that your wife drew and signed. And you call me delusional, you m*therf***er.

David: [referring to the earrings that Anna found in his room] That earring belongs to a woman I know.
Detective Little: And who is that woman?
David: Her name is Katherine. She spent the night here last week.

Anna Fox: I see the way that you’re all looking at me. I’m not crazy. I’m not hallucinating. Do I seem unreasonable?

Anna Fox: Look, it doesn’t matter what you think about me, if you approve of me, if you think that I’m reliable. There is a boy in danger in that house. Just help him, please.

Anna Fox: If my husband were here, he would help. He would believe me.
Detective Norelli: Dr. Fox, your family is dead.

Ed: [flashback to Anna with her husband and daughter before they died] And I can’t do it anymore. I can’t. The acting is foolish. It doesn’t dignify our daughter.
Anna Fox: You don’t care if she gets upset?
Ed: She should be upset. It’s upsetting.
Anna Fox: Well, don’t blame me if she’s scarred for life.
Ed: I do blame you. You’re to blame. The one f***ing the other person is to blame.

Detective Little: [to Anna] I talked to your doctor, Dr. Landy. And you have had a hell of a time. And I think you actually believe that you met this lady, just like how you believe you’re talking to your family. Your doctor said that your meds can cause hallucinations.

Anna Fox: Of course your wife is who she says she is. Of course she is. Of course you are. And I’m really sorry that I involved you in all of this. I’m so sorry that I mixed Ethan up in this. I don’t know what you must think. All of you.

Anna Fox: I’ve been slipping. Slipping on my meds. Drinking. Getting into a really dark frame of mind, and I’m not sharing that with you.
Dr. Landy: That’s a hard thing to admit.
Anna Fox: Well, it feels good to say.
Dr. Landy: And to hear.

Anna Fox: I just really needed to be at the center of something. I needed a wake-up call.
Dr. Landy: You got very lucky with that detective. You realize how this could’ve gone differently.
Anna Fox: I just want to turn it around.

Anna Fox: [filming herself] The point of me doing this is that there’s no confusion, about my soundness of mind. My state of mind. I especially want to make sure that you know that David Winters has absolutely nothing to do with my death.

Anna Fox: I just wish I could be forgiven. I really wish I could just be forgiven. I want to go back. I want to do it over. I want to do it different. And I can’t. And I can’t. I can’t!

David: [referring to the photo Anna has of Jane Russell] Her name is Katie.
Anna Fox: What?
David: Ethan, the son, she is the birth mother.

Anna Fox: They told you this?
David: She did. She wouldn’t shut up. They’ve been hiding from her for years. She found out they were living in Boston. He’s been paying her to stay away.
Anna Fox: Why did she tell me her name is Jane Russell?

Anna Fox: She’s real. And I need you to go to the police with me.
David: No. No, no.
Anna Fox: David! You can’t just run away from this!
David: Watch me.

Ethan Russell: [referring to David] He’s dead. You killed him.
Anna Fox: No. What?
Ethan Russell: It’s your knife. Your house. Just the two of you.

Ethan Russell: [referring to killing David] He deserved it. He slept with my mom and got her all pi**ed off. And then threw her out. She might have just gone away if he’d left her alone. And then maybe none of this would have happened.

Ethan Russell: Don’t scream, Anna! That’ll just be bad for everyone.

Ethan Russell: Why are you so freaked out? You’re killing yourself anyway, right?
Anna Fox: No. No.

Anna Fox: You killed your mother.
Ethan Russell: That bothers you, right? You feel for her? You and Katie. One job to do. One f***ing thing. Take care of your family, right? Both of you. And what do you do?

Ethan Russell: I don’t have a pattern yet.
Anna Fox: Pattern of?
Ethan Russell: Of this! I have so many choices, right? What do I want to be when I grow up? I know I like being there when it happens, feeling it.

Ethan Russell: You could pretend that I’m not even here. I just want to watch you go.
Anna Fox: Okay. You know what, f*** it. You want to watch?
[she pours the drug into her wine glass]
Anna Fox: Because a world with you in it, where you exist, is a world of filth. No, I’m done. I don’t want to breathe that air.
[she then smashes the wine bottle in Ethan’s face]

Ethan Russell: You don’t even want to live anymore! You haven’t wanted to live for a long time! Here we go!
Anna Fox: No!

Detective Little: [after Ethan falls to his death and Anna wakes in hospital] Are you in pain?
Anna Fox: I should be, right?
Detective Little: Hey, just don’t stay on that s**t too long because it feels way too good.

Detective Little: [to Anna] We have the Russells in custody. He isn’t saying a word, but Jane, she won’t stop talking, so. We have Katherine Melli’s body. We found it in Fort Lee. Which means you were right about everything you saw. And we messed up, and you’re going to get a lot of apologies from a lot of people. And I just wanted to be here to be the first. I’m sorry.

Detective Little: [referring to Anna deleting her suicide video] Look, I messed up this case so bad already. I don’t think one more thing is going to hurt me, right? Just be straight up with me. I’m not going to have to worry about you, right?
[Anna nods]

Anna Fox: [nine months later, in her daughter’s empty room ] I have to go now. I miss you.
[she then leaves the house with her cat]

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