TÁR Quotes

Max You're a fucking bitch.

Lydia Tár And you are a robot.

Lydia Tár It's my score! You fucking, little nothing!

Lydia Tár There's no glory for a robot, Eliot. Do your own thing!

Olga Metkina You have a child?

Lydia Tár Yes.

Olga Metkina I will never do that!

Lydia Tár Pets are best for some people.

Lydia Tár Don't be so eager to be offended. The narcissism of small differences leads to the most boring kind of conformity.

Lydia Tár It is always the question that involves the listener, never the answer.

Lydia Tár You want to dance the mask, you must service the composer. You gotta sublimate yourself, your ego, and, yes, your identity. You must, in fact, stand in front of the public and God and obliterate yourself.

Lydia Tár And this piece was not born into aching tragedy. It was born into young love.

Adam Gopnik And so you chose...

Lydia Tár Love.

Adam Gopnik Right, but precisely how long?

Lydia Tár Well, seven minutes!

Lydia Tár Is there something wrong with the water?

Cirio No. There are crocodiles.

Lydia Tár Oh. I didn't think they'd be this far inland.

Cirio They escaped from a ] movie.

Lydia Tár Wow. That was a long time ago.

Cirio They survived.

Eliot Kaplan The last thing I need is to be buttonholed in here by someone exactly like me.

Lydia Tár The problem with enrolling yourself as an ultrasonic epistemic dissident is that if Bach's talent can be reduced to his gender, birth country, religion, sexuality, and so on, then so can yours. Now, some day, Max, when you go out into the world, and you guest conduct for a major or minor orchestra, you may notice that the players have more than light bulbs and music on their stands. They will also have been handed rating sheets - the purpose of which is to rate you. Now, what kind of criteria would you hope that they use to do this? Your score reading and stick technique, or something else?