Diane Kruger credited as playing...
Anna Holtz
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Anna Holtz.
- Anna Holtz: Yes?
- Ludwig van Beethoven: You look like a woman.
- Anna Holtz: Thank you.
- Ludwig van Beethoven: [after a brief pause] But can you conduct?
- Ludwig van Beethoven: How old are you, my dear?
- Anna Holtz: Twenty-three.
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Twenty-three years old. I can just imagine you at the Creation, with your two decades of experience, saying to the Almighty, I think you've done a brilliant job with the world. I especially like South America. Beautiful shape. That wonderful bulge and the slender taper. The Straits of Magellan, lovely little touch. Africa, on the other hand, but wide for my taste. And Asia is entirely out of proportion. I'm afraid HeeGodhead, you'll have to do it all over.
- Ludwig van Beethoven: [sarcastically] I cannot tell you how much it means to me to know that you approve of my work.
- Anna Holtz: There are rats in your room. Big rats.
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Yes. They keep away the cats. I hate cats.
- Anna Holtz: Why?
- Ludwig van Beethoven: They don't make any noise.
- Anna Holtz: [reading his latest score] I think it's ugly.
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Ugly, you think it's ugly. Of course it's ugly. But is it beautiful?
- Anna Holtz: I don't understand.
- Ludwig van Beethoven: She doesn't understand. It's meant to challenge your sense of beauty...