Well, maybe it started that way, as a dream, but doesn't everything? Those buildings, these lights, this whole city! Somebody had to dream about it first.

James Henry Trotter (Paul Terry)

12 seconds sound clip from the James and the Giant Peach (1996) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:07:46.752 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- All right! All right! All right! Let's get to the bottom of this.

- This thing is a peach. All right. I'll buy that. Now, does somebody want to tell me how it got here?

- We attached it to a hundred seagulls.

- Seagulls!

- That's what happened! Me and Miss Spider and the Centipede and the old green Grasshopper.

- I think he's gone mad. This is all something he dreamed up.

- Well, maybe it started that way, as a dream, but doesn't everything? Those buildings, these lights, this whole city! Somebody had to dream about it first.

- And maybe that's what I did. I dreamed about coming here, but then I did it.

- The poor boy needs his medicine. Yes. So we'll just take him...

- And the peach.

- Back to our cozy, little house on the hill.

- Come along. You're going home with us.

- No, I'm not.

- What did you say?

- I said, No, I'm not!

- I hate that house and that cold room and how I was always hungry.

- All right! That's enough!

- And how you beat me!

- He's lying!

- And told me I was nothing!

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