With 2025 Best Actor Oscar winner, Adrien Brody, The Brutalist, as long as it may be, blew us away.

Here are the 8 best quotes from The Brutalist:

1.

“Nothing is of its own explanation. Is there a better description of a cube than that of its construction?”

– László Tóth (Adrien Brody)

2.

“This place is rotten. The landscape, the food we eat. This whole country is rotten.”

– Erzsébet Tóth (Felicity Jones)

3.

“Last night I met God. He gave me permission to call Him by His name.”

– Erzsébet Tóth (Felicity Jones)

4.

“When dogs get sick, they often bite the hand of those who fed them, until someone mercifully puts them down.”

– Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr. (Guy Pearce)

5.

“Losing a mother, it’s an unfathomable loss. To lose one’s birth mother is to lose the very foundation on which we stand. The mind may not know its loss, but the heart does.”

– Erzsébet Tóth (Felicity Jones)

6.

“We are nothing. We are worse than nothing.”

– László Tóth (Adrien Brody)

7.

“There was a war on. And yet it is my understanding that many of the sites of my projects have survived.”

– László Tóth (Adrien Brody)

8.

“ I’ve found our conversation persuasive and intellectually stimulating.”

– Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr. (Guy Pearce)