Favorite Quotes

STALKER:

Oh, God! Judging by his tone, he's going to start sermonizing again. Let everything that's been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their passions. Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy, but just the friction between their souls and the outside world. And most important, let them believe in themselves. Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible, when he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant, but when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.

- Andrei Tarkovsky (Salker 1979)

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STALKER:

We are now... on the threshold... This is the most important moment in your life. You must know that... Your innermost wishes will be made real here. Your most sincere wish! Born of suffering! No need to say anything. You just have to... concentrate and try to recall your whole life. When a man thinks of the past, he becomes kinder. And most important... Most important... You have to believe!

-Andrei Tarkovsky (Salker 1979)

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WRITER:

How would I know the right word for what I want? How would I know that actually I don't want what I want? Or that I actually don't want what I don't want? They are elusive things: the moment we name them, their meaning disappears, melts, dissolves like a jellyfish in the sun. My conscience wants vegetarianism to win over the world. And my subconscious is yearning for a piece of juicy meat. But what do I want?

-Andrei Tarkovsky (Salker 1979)

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WRITER:

To live in the Middle Ages was|interesting. Every home had its house-spirit,|and every church had its God. People were young!|Now every fourth is an old person. It's so boring, my angel. But you said that the Zone was the product of a superior|civilization... It must be boring, too,|all those laws, triangles, and no house spirits,|and no God, that's for certain. Because if God is also|a triangle, then I don't know what to think.To live in the Middle Ages was|interesting. Every home had its house-spirit,|and every church had its God. People were young!|Now every fourth is an old person. It's so boring, my angel. But you said that the Zone was the product of a superior|civilization... It must be boring, too,|all those laws, triangles, and no house spirits,|and no God, that's for certain. Because if God is also|a triangle, then I don't know what to think.

-Andrei Tarkovsky (Salker 1979)

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What strikes me is the fact that in our society,art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's
life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?
-Michael Foucault (in Rabinow 1986)
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SONJA:
Natasha, to love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness, I hope you're getting this down.
- Love and Death/Woody Allen
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It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
- Woody Allen
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It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better ... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
- Side Effects/Woody Allen
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This year I'm a star, but what will I be next year? A black hole?
- Woody Allen
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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
- Woody Allen
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BRUNO FORESTIER:

J'etais heureux de me sentir libre, ou libre de me sentir heureux... {I was happy to feel free, or free to feel happy...}

- Le Petit Soldat/Jean-Luc Godard
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BRUNO FORESTIER:

Le privilege de la mort: ne plus mourir. {The privilege of death: no longer die}

- Le Petit Soldat/Jean-Luc Godard
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BRUNO FORESTIER:

Hier je ne vous ai pas vue, mais je vous pensais; maintenant je vous regarde mais je pense a autre chose. {Yesterday I have not seen you, but I was thinking of you; now I am looking at you but I am thinking something else}

- Le Petit Soldat/Jean-Luc Godard

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WINNIE THE POOH:

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
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Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life
seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world
where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, 'Treatment is
simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That
should pick you up.' Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But, doctor...
'I am Pagliacci...'

- Alan Moore (Watchmen comic)

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DR. MANHATTAN:

...but the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles
that they become commonplace and we forget... We gaze continually at the
world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's
vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.
- Alan Moore (Watchmen comic)
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[A therapy session begins.]...
Dr. Malcolm Long: Good morning, Walter. How are you today?
Rorschach: In prison. Yourself?

- Alan Moore (Watchmen comic)
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LAURIE JUSPECZYK:

Oh, it's sweet. Being alive is so damn sweet... I want you to love me.
I want you to love me because we're not dead... I want to see you. I
want to see you and taste you and smell you just because I can.

- Alan Moore (Watchmen comic)
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Before...when people had secrets they didn't want to share...they'd climb a mountain. They'd find a tree and carve a hole in it. And whisper the secret into the hole. Then cover it over with mud. That way nobody else would ever discover it...
I once fell in love with someone. After a while she wasn't there. I went to...I thought she might be waiting for me there. But I couldn't find her. I can't stop wondering if she loved me or not. But I never found out. Maybe her answer was like a secret...

- Wong-Kar Wai (2046)
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Once upon a time a king gave a feast and there were all the most beautiful princesses of the realm. Basta, one of the guards, saw the king's daughter: she was the loveliest of all! And he immediately fell in love with her. But what could a poor soldier do compared with a king's daughter?!...One day he managed to meet her and told her he couldn't live without her. The princess was so struck by the depth of his feeling that she said to the soldier 'If you will wait a hundred days and a hundred nights beneath my balcony, then in the end I'll be yours.'Christ, the soldier ran off there and waited! One day, two days, ten, twenty...Every night she looked out of her window, but he never budged. Come rain, wind, snow, never budged! The birds shat on him and the bees ate him alive! After ninety nights he was gaunt and pale and tears streamed from his eyes but he couldn't hold them back. He didn't
even have the strength to sleep any more. The princess kept watch...And on the ninety-ninth night, the soldier got up, picked up his chair and left!

- Giuseppe Tornatore (Il Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)
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Memories...lt's like the phantom pains l get in my missing leg.They're not real and they hurt too much.

- Irwin Winker (De-Lovely)
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Kept in a small bowl, the goldfish will remain small. With more space,the fish can grow double, triple, or quadruple its size.

- Tim Burton (The Big Fish)