Inception2010

[Ariadne walks back into the warehouse]

Arthur:
Cobb said you'd be back

Ariadne:
I tried not to come, but.....

Arthur:
But there's nothing quite like it

Ariadne:
It's just...pure creation.

Arthur:
Shall we take a look at some paradoxical architecture?

[Arthur and Ariadne are walking up a wooden staircase in the dream]

Arthur:
You're going to have to master a few tricks if you're going to build three complete dream levels. [Projection drops papers in front of Arthur]..Excuse me.

Ariadne:
What kind of tricks?

Arthur:
In a dream you can cheat architecture into impossible shapes. That lets you create closed loops. Like the Penrose Steps. An infinite staircase. [The camera reveals they are walking on an impossible, looping staircase] See?...Paradox.

Arthur:
So a closed loop like that will help you disguise the boundaries of the dream you create

Ariadne:
But how big do these levels have to be?

Arthur:
It could be anything from the floor of a building to an entire city. But they have to be complicated enough that we can hide from the projections.

Ariadne:
A Maze?

Arthur:
Right, a maze. And the better the maze...

Ariadne:
Then the longer we have before the projections catch us?

Arthur:
Exactly.

Ariadne:
My subconscious seems polite enough.

Arthur:
[Arthur laughs] Ha,ha. You wait, they'll turn ugly. No one else like to feel someone else messing around in their mind.

Ariadne:
Cobb can't build anymore, can he?

Arthur:
Well I don't know if he can't, but he won't. He thinks it's safer if he doesn't know the layouts.

Ariadne:
Why?

Arthur:
He won't tell me. But I think it's Mal.

Ariadne:
His ex-wife?

Arthur:
No, Not his Ex.

Ariadne:
They're still together?

Arthur:
No. It's....no she's dead...What you see in there is just his projection of her.

Ariadne:
What was she like in real life?

Arthur:
She was lovely.