The Storyteller: Greek Myths (TV Series)

Orpheus & Eurydice (1991)

Michael Gambon: The Storyteller

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Quotes 

• The Storyteller : Sometimes a story doesn't end with two people falling in love, it starts there.

• The Storyteller : Orpheus wanted to keep her away from the untrimmed trees and the ragged depts of the forests because he knew who was there.

  The Dog : Who was?

  The Storyteller : Centaurs, fauns, satyrs, creatures given up to pleasure, hairy and unpredictable.

  The Dog : Like me.

  [laughs] 

  The Storyteller : Hairy, anyway.

  [scratches the dog's belly] 

• The Storyteller : Orpheus and Eurydice. Two names that will always belong together. Two people who loved each other even beyond the shadow of death itself.

• The Storyteller : When Orpheus played, the whole world wanted to move. It seemed that the roots of the trees would to haul themselves up from the Earth and dance to his rythm.

• The Storyteller : There is almost no sound in Hades.

  The Dog : They have a dog there, don't they?

  The Storyteller : They have a three-headed dog, Cerberus, if you must know. But this isn't a story about dogs, this is the story of Orpheus, who went down into Hades itself to bring back his loved one.

• The Storyteller : He was almost at the entrance to the cave that leads to Hades and he could hear the birds singing outside...

  The Dog : [interrupting]  And they walked out into the sunlight and were happily ever after?

  The Storyteller : They didn't. They didn't.

  [the dog sighs] 

  The Storyteller : They didn't.

• The Storyteller : It is always just when you think you have things in your grasp that you close your fingers and find they have gone. Because when we're in love it's our hearts that guide us and betray us all the time.