The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999 TV Movie)

Eric Stoltz: Nathaniel

Quotes 

• Ayn Rand : Tell me your principles.

  Nathaniel Branden : To think for myself. To reach my own conclusions. To seek truth, wherever it might lead.

• Nathaniel Branden : I feel as if... as if my whole life I've been on a leaky raft in the middle of the ocean and, and as soon as I cover one leak with my foot, there's another and...

  Barbara : [Interrupting]  Yes, alone and sinking.

  Nathaniel Branden : Yes, but after tonight, I think... it's possible to stand on solid ground, to understand, to really know.

• Caroline : I do not exist for other people. I must not rely on other people. I must... identify the origins of my emotions. I must establish a rational... I can't.

  Nathaniel Branden : Can't what?

  Caroline : I can't stop thinking about you.