Mr. Turner (2014)

Paul Jesson: William Turner Snr

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• J.M.W. Turner : Night coach from Brighton proved to be an heinous travail.

  William Turner Snr : How so?

  J.M.W. Turner : It was stuffed full of yacking and cackling females.

• William Turner Snr : How was your crossing?

  J.M.W. Turner : Set fair on departure, lumpy in the middle.

• Mary Somerville : The universe is a wondrous is it not, Mr. Turner?

  William Turner Snr : It is, to be sure. natural

  Mary Somerville : The planets and the stars. The oceans and the tides. The clouds and the air. Mountains, volcanoes.

  William Turner Snr : The tides be subject to the effect of the moon.

  Mary Somerville : Quite so. The mysterious force of gravity. It is my strong belief that all things on this earth are connected. Nothing exists in isolation.

  J.M.W. Turner : Indeed.

  William Turner Snr : The rain falls, the sun shines and the onions grow.

• William Turner Snr : Was the river busy?

  Mary Somerville : Extremely. You can see the whole world on the Thames.

• William Turner Snr : I shall. I shall tell her. I will tell her. I ought to have told her afore. Years ago.

• William Turner Snr : She was your mother, curse her! Show her due respect, boy. The bitch.