George Clooney credited as playing...
Kelvin
- Chris Kelvin: Earth. Even the word sounded strange to me now... unfamiliar. How long had I been gone? How long had I been back? Did it matter? I tried to find the rhythm of the world where I used to live. I followed the current. I was silent, attentive, I made a conscious effort to smile, nod, stand, and perform the millions of gestures that constitute life on earth. I studied these gestures until they became reflexes again. But I was haunted by the idea that I remembered her wrong, and somehow I was wrong about everything.
- Chris Kelvin: Can you tell me what's happening here?
- Snow: I could tell you what's happening, but I don't know if it would really tell you what's happening.
- Chris Kelvin: [quoting Dylan Thomas poem] And death shall have no dominion. Dead men naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon; When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone, They shall have stars at elbow and foot; Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
- Chris Kelvin: What does Solaris want from us?
- Gibarian: Why do you think it has to want something? This is why you have to leave. If you keep thinking there's a solution, you'll die here.
- Chris Kelvin: I can't leave her. I'll figure it out.
- Gibarian: Do you understand what I'm trying to tell you? There are no answers, only choices.
- Chris Kelvin: Why did you kill yourself?
- Gibarian: It seemed like a good idea at the time, now I think I made a mistake.
- [last lines]
- Chris Kelvin: Am I alive, or dead?
- Rheya Kelvin: We don't have to think like that any more. We're together now. Everything we've done is forgiven. Everything.
- [Speaking for the first time]
- Rheya Kelvin: Don't blow it.
- Chris Kelvin: [laughs] You start.
- Rheya Kelvin: I did.
- Chris Kelvin: Really? All right, I'm going to resist the impulse to ask you about the doorknob.
- Rheya Kelvin: Do you always resist your impulses?
- Chris Kelvin: Not always.
- Rheya Kelvin: Try poetry.
- Chris Kelvin: And death shall have no dominion...
- Rheya Kelvin: Mm, Thomas. It's not a very happy poem, though.
- Chris Kelvin: Well, you didn't seem very happy when I saw you on the train.
- Rheya Kelvin: [laughs] I wasn't.
- Chris Kelvin: And tonight?
- Rheya Kelvin: It's early.
- Rheya Kelvin: Were you alone?
- Chris Kelvin: Yes.
- Rheya Kelvin: Was that difficult?
- Chris Kelvin: It was easier than being with someone else.
- Rheya Kelvin: I can't remember how I got here. Did I come here with you?
- Chris Kelvin: I don't know how you got here.
- Rheya Kelvin: What do you mean?
- Chris Kelvin: I woke up and you were here.
- Gibarian: You think you're dreaming me.
- Chris Kelvin: You're not Gibarian.
- Gibarian: No? Who am I then?
- Chris Kelvin: A puppet.
- Gibarian: And you're not? Or maybe you're my puppet. But like all puppets you think you're actually human. It's the puppets dream, being human.
- Snow: How much sleep ya need, Kelvin?
- Chris Kelvin: How much sleep?
- Snow: Yeah. Um, how long ya think you can go without sleep?
- Chris Kelvin: Depends.
- Snow: Well, when you do go to sleep... I find I sleep much better with the door locked.
- Rheya Kelvin: I never thought you wanted one.
- Chris Kelvin: Sure, like I'd never want some life around this house!
- Chris Kelvin: Where have you been?
- Rheya Kelvin: Away from those fucking people.
- Chris Kelvin: They're my friends.
- Rheya Kelvin: Yeah.
- Chris Kelvin: What about your visitor, the one you're so ready to destroy without hesitation? Who is it? What is it? Does it feel? Can it touch? Does it speak?
- Gordon: We are in a situation that is beyond morality.
- Rheya Kelvin: So, apart from the poem that you quoted to me the night we met...
- Chris Kelvin: The night that you were hitting on me? That night?
- Rheya Kelvin: I, eh, don't think so. What's your favorite poem?
- Chris Kelvin: My favorite Dylan Thomas poem? Well, there's the, eh, there's the, the one he's most famous for. Which starts, eh, "There was a young man from Nantucket - "
- Chris Kelvin: Why haven't you come home? What happened here? What did you find?
- Gordon: Who are you representing, exactly?
- Chris Kelvin: I represent the last effort to recover this mission before they abandon this ship and everyone on board.
- Gordon: Until it starts happening to you, there's really no point in discussing it.
- Chris Kelvin: How about you? How are you doing?
- Gordon: Depression along with bouts of hypomania and primary insomnia, suggestions of agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, shock, fatigue, denial.
- Chris Kelvin: None of which is unusual given the circumstances.
- Gordon: I know.