Stillwater (2021)

Matt Damon: Bill

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• [last lines] 

  Allison : [back home, sitting on the porch]  Everything looks the same here. Nothings' changed. Don't you think?

  Bill : No, Ally, I don't. It all looks different to me. I don't hardly recognize it any more.

• Allison : You miss them?

  Bill : I do.

  Allison : Can you go back...

  Bill : No, I can't. But it was good. That doesn't change.

  Allison : I'm sorry.

  Bill : Life is brutal.

• Allison : I learned something new actually. It's helped me a lot. It's something called the "Maktub." A nurse told me about it. It's about acceptance.

  Bill : Acceptance of what?

  Allison : Your fate. It's helping me to stop struggling so much. Stop questioning everything. You just embrace your fate and learn to live in peace with it. It's a Muslim idea. It's about - letting go of all of that - shame - and guilt that pushes you down - and keeps you down - and makes you feel so powerless. And that's how I felt for a really long time. Powerless and forgotten. And - that makes living really hard. You know what I mean?

  Bill : But you're innocent. So we got to keep fighting.

  Allison : It doesn't matter that I'm innocent, Dad. It's not about justice, Dad. It's about finding peace.

• Allison : She just don't do TV acting or anything. She does - the-a-ter.

  Allison : Theater.

  [chuckles] 

  Allison : Have you seen her act?

  Bill : What am I gonna do in a fuckin' the-a-ter?

  Allison : [laughs]  Yeah

• Bill : Allison was raised by her grandmother mostly. I wasn't around much.

  Virginie : Where were you?

  Bill : Working oil rigs and being a fuckup when I wasn't.

• Bill : Let's pray. Thank you, Lord, for this and many other blessings. Thank you for this special day with Ally. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Maya?

  Maya : Dig in.

  Virginie : [serving Allison]  There you go.

  Allison : Merci.

  Bill : Thank you.

  Allison : So you two really aren't having sex?

  Bill : Allison Baker.

  Allison : What? What? You're so French now, I-I thought it was okay to talk about sex at the dinner table. Sorry.

• Allison : You think I'm a monster?

  Bill : You're my daughter. I - I could never think that.

• Virginie : That's it. Kallisté. That's where she says Akim lives.

  Bill : Well, can we go look around?

  Virginie : No. Not at this time. It's not safe for us.

  Bill : 'Cause we're white?

  Virginie : 'Cause we're not from there.

• Bill : Are you sure we can park here?

  Allison : What are they gonna do? Arrest me?

• Maya : You're my favorite.

  Bill : Favorite what?

  Maya : Favorite American.

• Allison : Does this kid have a father?

  Bill : He's not around. Lives on a beach or some shit.

  Allison : Groovy.

• Virginie : Do you go to theater?

  Bill : No, ma'am.

  Virginie : Never?

  Bill : No, ma'am.

  Virginie : Okay.

• Maya : Ça va?

  Bill : Hell yeah, ça va!

• Bill : I got you, uh, a Cowboys sweatshirt at the airport. They're gonna be good this year. They got this big ol' tight end out of Guthrie. Takes about three guys to bring him down. He's gonna go pro for sure.

  Allison : Cool.

• Bill : She was going to Oklahoma State. She just called me up one day, said, "I'm going to France."

• Virginie : Bill, let them go, okay? She's afraid.

  Bill : Afraid of what? I'm talking to her.

  Virginie : Yeah, but that's not how it works here.

  Bill : Well, you tell me how it works then, 'cause nobody here's doing shit for me.

  Virginie : I do shit for you, okay?

• Bill : Once that oil company has that lease, they hire a drilling company. That's who I work for. And then we get there, we rig up and we put all that shit together. Once we have that rig up, we start making a hole. That's what a roughneck does. We make holes.

• Bill : The press was against us. All they cared about was Allison was sleeping with some Arab girl. Bunch of - fake news scumbags.

• Old Bar Owner : [looking over photos]  What happened to your daughter, it's terrible. I still don't get how they could send a nice girl like that to jail. Look at all these monkeys.

  Virginie : Do any of them look familiar?

  Old Bar Owner : Hard to tell. They all look the same.

  Bill : Does he recognize anybody?

  Old Bar Owner : They come here, they're always trouble. It's like they own Marseille now.

• Renaud : Hi. You must be Bill.

  Bill : Yes, sir. Hi.

  Renaud : Good to meet you. Uh, Virginie told me you-you are from Oklahoma. That's so cool.

• Leparq : Mr. Baker, do not take any initiative this time. Understand?

  Bill : Yes, ma'am, I do.

• Bill : "Ciseau à bois." That's a shitload of words for "chisel."

• Allison : So is this woman your girlfriend?

  Bill : It's not like that. I just live with them. Like roommates.

  Allison : What does she do?

  Bill : She's sort of an actress.

  Allison : Sort of an actress? She a stripper?

• Bill : Mer-ci.

  Virginie : Pourquoi?

  Bill : Everything, I guess.

• Nedjma : Bill, did you vote for Trump?

  Bill : No.

  Virginie : Ah. Voilà.

  Bill : I didn't vote.

  Nedjma : What?

  Virginie : Why didn't you vote?

  Bill : Got a record. I was arrested. They don't let you vote when that happens.

  Nedjma : [in French]  Awesome. He's been condemned.