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.

Quote context

[...]

- 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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