Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Season 1

Kanazuki:
What do you think?

Major:
I have to admit, for a movie it wasn't bad- but diversionary entertainment is transitory, it just comes and goes at the viewers whim. It's the way it should be, but a film with no beginning or end that hooks an audience and won't let go of them is harmful no matter how wonderful you may have believed it was.

Kanazuki:
Ohh, you're a tough critic. Are you saying that we members of the audience have a reality to which we should return?

Major:
Yes I am.

Kanazuki:
For some who sit and watch the film, misery will be waiting for them the instant they go back to reality. You're willing to accept responsibility for depriving these people of their dreams?

Major:
No, I'm not. But dreams are meaningful when you work toward them in the real world. If you merely live within the dreams of other people it's no different from being dead.

Kanazuki:
You're a realist.

Major:
If a romantic escapes from reality, then yes.

Kanazuki:
A strong girl you are. If the reality you believe in ever comes about, you give me a call. When it happens, that's the time we'll leave this theatre.