The Ice Storm (1997)

Michael Cumpsty: Philip Edwards

Quotes 

• Philip Edwards : Sometimes the shepherd needs the comfort of the sheep.

  Elena Hood : I'm going to try hard not to understand the implications of that.

• Philip Edwards : Perhaps you find in books what I try to find in people.

  Elena Hood : That sounds vaguely like an insult.

  Philip Edwards : Oh, my, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it that way at all. Perhaps I meant it simply as a - a provocation.

• Philip Edwards : I, of course, flatter myself that our church is not exactly what most people would call organized religion - at times it's the disorganization that's liberating. And, of course, I've begun to minister much more in what one might call therapeutic environments, in small groups, in couples, and - one on one.

• Elena Hood : I haven't been on a bike for years. When was the last time you rode a bike?

  Philip Edwards : They say you never forget.