Les nuits fauves

Jean:
I don't know how to say 'no'. I was never capable of doing that.

Samy:
I'd like to work with you.

Jean:
That's blackmail. You sleep with me and I get you a job?

Samy:
No, you got me wrong.

Kader:
How do you do with the guys?

Jean:
You're curious huh? Safe sex. A quickie under the bridge, no longer than five minutes and then... Am I shocking you?

Kader:
No.

[last lines]

Jean:
I'm alive. The world is not something that is only around me. I'm part of it. Maybe I'll die of AIDS but it's no longer my life. I am part of life.

Laura:
You can't love. You're incapable of loving me. You prefer that little whore. If you could see how pathetic you are. He turns you on but you don't love him either. You don't love life. You suck everyone dry but what do you give?

Samy:
Are you in a hurry or you always drive like this?

Jean:
Always like this.

Jean:
Who is Mr. Andre?

Samy:
An old queer.

Samy:
You would have a great scoop if I had fallen.

Jean:
Said it right: *if you had fallen.

Samy:
But wouldn't that be a great news... if I had fallen?

Jean:
Why do you think that I'm interested in filming a death?

Samy:
You could make a lot money, don't you think?

Laura:
You're not hungry? You didn't like the food?

Jean:
I hate that kind of food.

Laura's Mother:
You're not gonna eat?

Jean:
No.

Laura's Mother:
No? And not even drink?

Jean:
No.

Laura's Mother:
And you don't smoke? How do you live?

Jean:
Of AZT.

Laura's Mother:
Very funny.

Laura:
He kills me and reduces me to nothing yet I still love him.

Samy:
What's your story?

Jean:
I am... me.

Samy:
Do you like guys?

Jean:
What do you think?

Samy:
I'm just asking...

Jean:
Come here... I'm not gonna rape you.

Jean:
I wanna live, I don't wanna die!

Laura:
Do you sleep with Jean?

Samy:
I'm not gay.

Laura:
You could do it for interest.

Samy:
You don't know what interests me. I don't care about money, glory, social position. I just need things that excite me, understand?

Laura:
Sleeping with Jean doesn't excite you?

Samy:
Can't you think of another thing? You seem obsessed with this.

Laura:
Do you intend to stay long?

Samy:
I don't know.

Laura:
I don't think you will.

Samy:
Oh really?

Laura:
Yes.

Samy:
How would you know?

Laura:
Because Jean is like this: some come, others go.

Samy:
Is that so? And what are you doing here?

Laura:
This is my house.

Samy:
This is your house? Everybody goes and you stay?

Laura:
That's how it is.

Samy:
You're lucky. But one day someone will occupy this house.

Laura:
Yes, but it won't be you.

Jean:
Come here, Laura. I wanna say something.

Laura:
What's wrong?

Jean:
You know I've been with lots of guys, one worst than the other... I think we should take some precautions.

Laura:
What precautions?

Jean:
I did the HIV test and the result was positive.

Laura:
You knew that the first time we made love?

Jean:
Yes.

Laura:
And you didn't say anything. You knew it and you didn't say anything. I can't believe! How could you do this to me and not say anything? This is terrible... monstrous. How long?

Jean:
A few months. Don't make judgments. You don't know what it does.

Laura:
No and I don't care and you should have told me. It was the least you could do. Not a word! Do you realize we made love and you didn't say anything.

Jean:
I thought nothing was going to happen to you.

Laura:
Even if nothing's gonna happen, you should have told me.

Jean:
I... don't know how to explain it, as if this weren't a part of me, understand? I couldn't... I couldn't absorb.

Laura:
But you never stopped thinking about it. Didn't you thought about it when we made love? You didn't told me... you don't trust me. Why don't you trust me?

Jean:
It has nothing to do with that.

[first lines]

Jean:
I feel I'm going through life like an American tourist, doing as many towns as possible.