"These are women, who can't find a man. They want to destroy everything that's good between men and women. They don't know what they want." --Robert (Christopher Walken), replying to a question about feminist posters plastered throughout Venice.

"How can you do a play with only women? I mean what could happen?" --Caroline (Helen Mirren), asking about the effectiveness of having an all-women theater troupe.

"Happen? Well, you, a . . . you could have a play about two women who've only just met sitting on a balcony, talking." --Mary (Natasha Richardson), answering.

"But they'd probably be waiting for a man. And then he'd come, and then something would happen!"--Caroline, replying.

"My father, and his father, understood themselves clearly. They were men. And they were proud of their sex. Women understood them, too. Now, women treat men like children because they can't take them seriously; but men like my father, my grandfather-- women took very seriously. There was no uncertainty, no confusion."--Robert, on the attributes of men confident of themselves.

These are quotes from The Comfort of Strangers, a film worth checking out if you're into primal sexual stories. People who liked The Story of O (1975), The Image (1973), and Secretary (2002), might enjoy this film, although in contrast to those films most of the eroticism takes place in the dialogue and the stories told between the four major characters (the fourth, Colin, being played by Rupert Everett).

As usual in most of the films he is in, Walken's delivery of his lines is delightful to watch.