Control Quotes

Ian Mrs. Brady please can I use your toilet please?

Mrs. Brady Of course you can, love. Second on the left down the hall.

Ian Thank you.

Mrs. Brady ... Where was I? Oh yes.

Ian Curtis It says here... usually prescribed for schizophrenia. Side effects include drowsiness, apathy, agitation, and blurred vision :(pause)... I'm taking two.

Ian (touches a butterfly shape on the glass window) My heart leaps when I behold, a rainbow in the sky. So it was my life began, so is it now, I am a man. So it be when I shall grow old, or let me die. The child is the father of the man. And I could wish my days to be bound by natural piety. (sits down on the bed)

Nick ... Did you write that?

Debbie It's a shame Nick couldn't come.

Ian He did say I could go out with you. He said it was alright, as long as I looked after you.

Debbie Did he now?

Ian Well I didn't want you thinking we were going behind his back or anything.

Debbie That's a bit presumptuous don't you think?

Ian Why?

Debbie I might not (have) wanted to go out with you.

Ian You're a twat you are. You're a bastard.

Tony Wilson ..am I? Why is that?

Ian Because you haven't put us on television.

Ian (hands over a box of cigarettes to Debbie who refuses the offer) You can't be in my gang if you don't smoke.

Debbie (I) don't wanna be in your gang.

Ian Neither do I.

Ian Curtis Existence, well, what does it matter? I exist in the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.

Ian Curtis I wish I were a Warhol silkscreen, hanging on the wall.

Rob Gretton I know how you can be better just like that (snaps his finger).

Ian Go on then.

Rob Simple. You employ me. You play, I manage. We all get stinking rich and famous and go buy great big fucking houses in Cheshire.

DJ Rob Gretton I already manage a couple of bands, but between you and me, they couldn't sniff the sweat around your bollocks. You lot are something else. I hold my hands up! I am a believer in Joy Division! Fucking hallelujah!

Peter Hook You know I don't mind the Buzz, but calling themselves cocks... (I) don't get it.

Ian Well they're not calling themselves the Cocks are they? They're calling themselves the Buzzcocks.

Peter (mumbles)... Just couldn't stand for it, that's all.

Ian Curtis When you're looking at life in a strange new room... maybe drowning soon. Is this the start of it all?