Rose Red (2002)

Nancy Travis: Prof. Joyce Reardon

Photos 

Quotes 

• Joyce : Houses... are alive. This is something we know. News from our nerve endings. If we're quiet, if we listen, we can hear houses breath. Sometimes, in the depth of the night, you can even hear them groan. It's as if they were having bad dreams. A good house cradles and comforts, a basd one fills us with instinctive unease. Bad houses hate our warmth and our human-ness. That blind hate of our humanity is what we mean when we use the word 'haunted'.

• Steve : [discussing the future of the house]  No, no, it's coming down in July, and I can't wait. I cannot wait.

  Joyce : How can you hate it so much?

  Steve : It eats my relatives! Or did you miss that in your research?

• Joyce : I've got the makings of a good group. But these people are candles. Annie Wheaton's a searchlight. If anyone can wake up Rose Red, she can.

• Joyce : Annie Wheaton is the key to unlock Rose Red.

• Joyce : Steve's about as psychic as a ham sandwich.

• Joyce : Obtuse? Oh, what a dreadfully big word for a college dropout.

• Joyce : Rose Red is just a dead cell.

• Joyce : [while surrounded by ghosts]  Stay away from meee!

• Joyce : I will fight you every step of the process.

• Joyce : The proof is out there.

• Joyce : [Joyce cut her finger and smears blood all over Professor Miller's face]  Check yourself into hospital in case you need an AIDS test.