Dopamine (2003)

John Livingston: Rand

Quotes 

• Rand : My question is, does the chemical make-up between two human mammals make up our personal involvement a moot point?

  Sarah McCaulley : Of course, it's all chemical to start with. It's all just signals to communicate with these bodies we live in, but true love is incredible, all consuming.

  Rand : No I totally agree with you, all consuming. BUt so is the lust, I mean is it possibly rooted in physiology rather then

  [hand quotes] 

  Rand : our hearts?

• Sarah McCaulley : Have you ever been in love?

  Rand : No, but I've seen it. My parents totally crazy about each other.

  Sarah McCaulley : Then why are you such a cynic?

  Rand : Well I've also seen it disappear all together as it were never there at all.

• Rand : These are my fat pills actually, I grew up fat. Seriously, my parents they never stopped me from having a second helping of whatever so I kind of blew up from there.

  Rand : The doctor diagnosed me with hyperthyroidis, prescribed this drug Syntac. Right after I started taking it, I started feeling like I had more energy, I started swimming and stuff,by Junior year in high school I was pretty much normal.

  Sarah McCaulley : I've read somewhere lately that they've been doing a lot of placebo work with thyroid problems?

  Rand : This is definitely not a placebo.

  Sarah McCaulley : How do you know? Let me guess... you got a feeling?

  Rand : That's very funny I didn't know you were a comedian!

• Rand : You cold?

  Sarah McCaulley : No, what are you feeling? Are you all squishy inside or is this just some phermones thing that's kicking in?

  Rand : Well it's obviously your pheromones...

  Sarah McCaulley : My pheromones?

  Rand : Yeah, your epocrine glads produce most of them. I sense them through smell. Especially when we kiss.

  Sarah McCaulley : What else are you feeling?

  Rand : Biologically, my ribonasal organ and my hypothalamas are kicking in the hormones right now.

  Sarah McCaulley : What hormones?

  Rand : Testosterone, big time.

  Sarah McCaulley : Okay, shut up now.

  [making out] 

  Rand : Now the neurotransmitters are filling with dopamine. That's the pleasure drug that our body produces. It creates a high, it's addicting.

  Sarah McCaulley : [stops kissing]  That all you're feeling? Is it anything else to you?

  Rand : It's a little hard to tell right now...

  Sarah McCaulley : I'm serious.

  Rand : I'm serious too.

  Sarah McCaulley : What puts us above the level of being animals?

  Rand : Our intelligence.

  Sarah McCaulley : It's not love? Oh it's not love to you.

  Rand : Sarah, I told you what was going on inside me. Is that love? I don't know.

  Sarah McCaulley : That's cool Rand. I've got some holes to fill and I'm not sure intelligence is the answer.

• Sarah McCaulley : So tell me, why'd that art gallery freak you out so much? You don't have to tell me. Here

  [hands him the wood stick] 

  Rand : What's this? A talking stick? Oh, oh I see. So I can join the generation of emasulated males given permission to talk about their feelings? Sorry, it's a joke.

• Johnson : [both ride bikes with a marathon]  Hey, Sarah was looking for you last night.

  Rand : She was?

  Johnson : What's up with you two?

  Rand : I'm not sure. It doesn't make an sense.

  Johnson : What do you mean? Why do we have to make sense of everything?

  Johnson : Yeah it's nice to know when some low pressure system pushes moisture laid in the air over a heated land mass and that we need a fucking umbrella to get to work

  Johnson : Hey man, rain used to be with the gods of thunder cried.

• Sarah McCaulley : Rand, I'm not using this as an excuse I honestly don't know have the shit I do. Sometimes until it's done.

  Sarah McCaulley : It's like I'm on auto-pilot. I land in places I shouldn't.

  Rand : You really know how to make a guy feel confident.

• Rand : No one will ever live up to what you and Sam had.

  Sarah McCaulley : Why?

  Rand : I think you're judging people on the wrong scale.

  Sarah McCaulley : Why can't it be like that?

  Rand : [ponders]  ... you're only born perfect?

  Sarah McCaulley : ...and it's all downhill from there. Why me Rand?

  Rand : What do you mean?

  Rand : Why am I not some chemical reaction that will run out on you one day, what makes me special?

  Sarah McCaulley : I don't know.

• [last lines] 

  Sarah McCaulley : Morning, sleepyhead.

  Rand : I was dreaming of you.

  Sarah McCaulley : You were?

  Rand : [laughs]  Yes, I was singing to you in my dream.

  Sarah McCaulley : Singing? What song?

  Rand : That Bob Dylan Song? 'Sara'?

  Sarah McCaulley : [laughs]  I'd love to hear it!

  Rand : Oh, no.

  Sarah McCaulley : Koy-Koy needs to sing.

  Rand : I don't think so.

  Sarah McCaulley : Koy-Koy doesn't sing, he doesn't get any Kiki.

  Rand : [laughs]  I'm not gonna sing.

  Sarah McCaulley : Sing!

  Rand : [singing]  ... Sarah, Sarah, whatever made you change your mind?

  Sarah McCaulley , Rand : [Both singing]  Sarah, Sarah, so easy to look at, so hard to define.