‘Kill Bill: Vol. I’, Quentin Tarantino (2003)
‘Birdman’, Alejandro González Iñárritu (2014)
Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige.
‘Death Proof’, Quentin Tarantino (2007)
It’s better than safe. It’s death proof.
‘The Imitation Game’, Morten Tyldum (2014)
Do you know, this morning I was on a train that went through a city that wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for you. I bought a ticket from a man who would likely be dead if it wasn’t for you. I read up, on my work, a whole field of scientific inquiry that only exists because of you. Now, if you wish you could have been normal… I can promise you I do not. The world is an infinitely better place precisely because you weren’t.
‘There Will Be Blood’, Paul Thomas Anderson (2007)
Did you think your song and dance and your superstition would help you, Eli? I am the Third Revelation! I am who the Lord has chosen!
‘A Most Violent Year’, J.C. Chandor (2014)
When it feels scary to jump, that is exactly when you jump, otherwise you end up staying in the same place your whole life, and that I can’t do.
‘Manhunter’, Michael Mann (1986)
And if one does what God does enough times, one will become as God is.
‘Fish Tank’, Andrea Arnold (2009)
‘Stoker’, Park Chan-wook (2013)
My ears hear what others cannot hear; small faraway things people cannot normally see are visible to me. These senses are the fruits of a lifetime of longing, longing to be rescued, to be completed. Just as the skirt needs the wind to billow, I’m not formed by things that are of myself alone. I wear my father’s belt tied around my mother’s blouse, and shoes which are from my uncle. This is me. Just as a flower does not choose its color, we are not responsible for what we have come to be. Only once you realize this do you become free, and to become adult is to become free.
‘Jaws’, Steven Spielberg (1975)