Arabian Nights (2000)

Mili Avital: Scheherezade

Quotes 

• Sultan Schariar : Look into my eyes. What do you see, Scheherezade?

  Scheherezade : Me. Looking at you, my love.

• Storyteller : Here again, milady?

  Scheherezade : These people sit for hours, just listening.

  Scheherezade : It's a miracle.

  Storyteller : People need stories, more than bread, itself.

  Storyteller : They teach us how to live, and why.

• Sultan Schariar : You saved me. Why did you do it?

  Scheherezade : Because I loved you.

  Sultan Schariar : Is that the real reason?

  Scheherezade : [She smiles]  It'll have to do, until...

  [Schariar kisses her] 

• Scheherezade : A master storyteller once told me the audience must be hooked in the first moments, otherwise you've lost them.

• Scheherezade : Is this the time for stories?

  Storyteller : It's the perfect time! Stories show us how to win, and in your case: defeat death.

• Scheherezade : He said the world was an inferno full of darkness and evil, and that there were only two ways of dealing with it. The first was easy and wrong: to accept it and become part of it. The second way was harder and right: you fight it, and recognize those who aren't evil, and help them endure.

• Scheherezade : [narrating]  The trial of Jerome Gribben was the social event of the season. The judge in the case was the venerable Judge Zadic. Judge Zadic was totally incompetent but being a Judge nobody had noticed.

• Scheherezade : [narrating]  Feed a grub royal jelly and he will turn into an Emperor Butterfly in an instant.

• Scheherezade : [narrating]  The storyteller always said, "Stories can save us." I guess what he meant was... they can save us! If we use our imagination.

• Scheherezade : [narrating]  Life often turns upon such small things as a flickering oil lamp.

• Sultan Schariar : Is that the end of the story?

  Scheherezade : [hastily]  No, no...! At the wedding, there was an important guest...

  [She sees a silhouette of a bowing servant, thinking quickly] 

  Scheherezade : ... a hunchback. His name was... Bacbac.

• Scheherezade : Stories are less simple than we think they are.

• Scheherezade : They say 'Fortune favors the brave'... and those who can learn from their mistakes.

• Scheherezade : Death comes in many shapes and disguises.

• Scheherezade : [Schariar has drawn a sword and hacked the pillows to shreds around her]  Are you all right? Can I do anything for you?

  Sultan Schariar : I just missed *killing* you, and you ask if there's anything you can do for *me*?

• Scheherezade : These people sit for hours - just listening. It's a miracle!

  Storyteller : People need stories more than bread itself. They tell us how to live, and why.