Saving Mr. Banks Quotes

[last lines]
[the authentic recordings of the rehearsals are being played on tape]
P.L. Travers: Now, who's reading? And go slowly.
Don DaGradi: You start and I'll take over.
Robert Sherman: "Autumn. In the early part of the 20th century, 1910. London. At Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane, the Banks household is in an uproar."

P.L. Travers: Hold it. Now, I see that Cherry Tree Lane as not too townified on one side of the park. And we'll get you a photograph of 50 Smith Street, in order to see that the house is really quite like that. But it has more of a garden than my house had. But it might be useful and amusing to put it in as my house. You see?
Don DaGradi: "Upstairs

in the nursery, where Mary is measuring up the children with a long row of tape measure, Mary reads off the tape that Jane is..." Well, first she says, "What kind of material have we got to work with?"
P.L. Travers: No, no. That, we cannot have. That would be quite un-English.
Richard Sherman: Mrs. Travers, basically what we want to do here is use

pretty much what you have in the book.
P.L. Travers: Yes, yes. Now, I want this tape measure to be used, because it was a tape measure that my mother had when she was a little girl.
Richard Sherman: Mmm-hmm.
P.L. Travers: And I think it would be very nice.
Don DaGradi: "At the end of the chorus..."

P.L. Travers: Read me all that, now.
Don DaGradi: We were going to.
P.L. Travers: Read it. No, no. You read it.
Don DaGradi: Do you want to bear us?
[Chuckles]
P.L. Travers: No. Go on.
Don DaGradi: This is torture!
[Chuckles]
P.L.

Travers: Now, go on. "At the end of the chorus..." There ought perhaps to have been people in this countryside, you see? Are you making note of it? And they would be the Pearly people. They'd be arriving and they'd come nearer and they'd see, "Ah. Hmm." They know they are not grand enough to eat at this table. Have you got this on tape? Because I think it's important. I'm not going to do

this film unless I'm available for it.
Robert Sherman: Well, there are these tapes also, you know.
P.L. Travers: No, it's not enough.
Robert Sherman: We, uh... We have to feel the impact of it.
P.L. Travers: Yes, yes. Well, anyway, it brings about whatever it is. Mr. Banks, um, is able. He has a tender,

good heart, not a change of heart, because he's always been sweet, but worried with the cares of life.
[the tape ends]

Walt Disney: I think life disappoints you, Ms. Travers. I think it's done that a lot. And maybe Mary Poppins is the only person in your life who hasn't.
P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins isn't real.
Walt Disney: That's not true. She was as real as can be to my daughters, and to thousands of other children - adults too. She's been a

nighttime comfort to a heck of a lot of people.
P.L. Travers: Then where is she when I need her? I open the door for Mary Poppins, and who should be standing there but Walt Disney!

Walt Disney: Pam, a man cannot break a promise he's made to his kids, no matter how long it takes for him to make it come true. Now, you kept me dangling all this time. But now, I gotcha.
P.L. Travers: Gotcha, indeed! Mr. Disney, if you have "dangled", it is at the end of a rope you have fashioned for yourself. I was perfectly clear when you approached me

20 years ago that she wasn't for sale and I was clear again when you approached me the following year and clear again when you approached me every annum for the subsequent 18 years and quite honestly, I feel corralled!

P.L. Travers: My point is that, unlike yourself, Mary Poppins is the very enemy of whimsy and sentiment. She's truthful. She doesn't sugarcoat the darkness in the world that these children will eventually, inevitably come to know. She prepares them for it. She deals in honesty. One must clean one's room, it will magically do it by itself! This entire script is flim-flam! Where is

its heart? Where is its reality? Where... is the gravitas?
[She throws the script out the window]

Travers Goff: [the Travers have just arrived at their new home which is a rundown farm and it is obvious the family are in poverty but Goff tries to pretend otherwise] A Palace! Complete with mighty steed!
Ginty: And chickens!
Margaret Goff: [Shocked and disappointed] Oh my!
Travers Goff: [to Margaret] We'll

make beautiful memories here my angel
[Pecks his wife on the cheek and she pretends to smile]
Travers Goff: Girls, come on. In this house you get to share a room!

Ginty: [Ginty turns over in bed and sees Margaret staring at her coldly from outside her bedroom] Mother!
Margaret Goff: [Referring the hidden pain killers and Goff] I knew you give them to him. Take care of your sisters.
Ginty: [Shocked] No!
Margaret Goff: I know you love your father more. But one day you'll

understand.
[Turns away to kill herself]
Margaret Goff: .

P.L. Travers: [at the Disneyland gate] Is it all like this?
Walt Disney: Yup! Isn't it wonderful?
P.L. Travers: Do you always get everything you want Walter?
Walt Disney: Pretty much!
P.L. Travers: With the exception to the rights to my books of course!
Walt

Disney: War ain't over yet Pam!