Confidence (1980)

Ildikó Bánsági: Kata

Quotes 

• Kata : I think I am terribly afraid.

  János Biró : So am I, it's natural. But at least we can be afraid together.

• János Biró : It will be midnight in a second.

  Kata : I'm so afraid.

  János Biró : Of what?

  Kata : I don't know, I fear death.

  János Biró : Now!

  [inner speech] 

  János Biró : It doesn't matter where you are or how you are so long as you feel free inside yourself. Have just a little feeling of security.

  Kata : What did you say?

  János Biró : Happy New Year! I was just saying that the important thing is to be healthy, the rest will come somehow.

  Kata : Happy New Year!

• Kata : Could anyone still betray you? Do you trust anyone to that extent?

  János Biró : This country is like a dirty river. You stir it up a bit and up comes the filth. You could see that today. The only possibility of existence and safety, is not to believe. The only defence is not to talk. The only strength is not to trust anyone.

  Kata : Tell me, do I mean anything at all to you?

  János Biró : It's not that I don't trust people, I don't trust the times we live in. Man wasn't born to live on the limits of his moral proclivity. Understand?

  Kata : I don't know what you mean by "moral proclivity".

• János Biró : My friends from my student days - chemists, doctors, physicists. They're in America, Canada, Australia. They only flirted once with revolution, in 1919. They got scared and realised that they only had one life. In any case, they were talented.

  Kata : Aren't you talented?

  János Biró : I don't know what I am. A girl once told me that I was a second class revolutionary. I think she was right.

  Kata : Who's first class?

  János Biró : Those who are braver.