Man on the Train (2011)

Donald Sutherland: The Professor

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• The Professor : [to his student]  I don't know who is the more obtuse, you who see questions when there are only answers to be seen, or me who seeks an answer when there might not even be a question.

• The Professor : Americans love a tragedy with a happy ending.

• The Professor : Memories are important.

  The Thief : I prefer to forget.

• The Professor : I think, with the exception of needle point, I possess all of the accomplishments of a well-breed young woman educated at the end of the 19th century.

  [chuckles] 

  The Professor : Are you musical?

  The Thief : I had a harmonica once.

• The Thief : You don't lock it?

  The Professor : No, why, do you think that's unwise? Nothing ever happens in a small town like this.

• The Professor : I've always thought I'd like to take to hard liquor. There's something poetic about drinking to excess.