A deer has to be taken with one shot. I try to tell people that but they don't listen.
— Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Michael Vronsky, Robert De Niro, The Deer Hunter
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I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blu…
— Horton Foote, Atticus Finch, Gregory Peck, To Kill A Mockingbird
Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.
— Budd Schulberg, Terry Malloy, Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront
Nobody ever lies about being lonely.
— Daniel Taradash, James Jones, Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt, Montgomery Clift, From Here to Eternity
It's ridiculous. I'm sittin' here listening to some cracker asshole lives in a trailer park compare his life to mine. Keep on tellin' me about the good life, Elton, because it makes me puke.
— Carole Eastman, Bob Rafelson, Robert Eroica Dupea, Jack Nicholson, Five Easy Pieces
Gretel McAlbertson: Why are you stealing food? Ratso Rizzo: I was just, uh, noticing that you're out of salami. I think you oughtta have somebody go over to the delicatessen, you know, bring some more back. Gretel McAlbertson: Gee, well, you know, it's free. You don't have to steal it. Ratso Rizzo:…
All of you! You all killed him! And my brother, and Riff. Not with bullets, or guns, with hate. Well now I can kill, too, because now I have hate!
— Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, Ernest Lehman, María, Natalie Wood, West Side Story
Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
— Tennessee Williams, Oscar Saul, Blanche DuBois, Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war? Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No, I don't think I do, sir, no. General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, w…
— Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George, Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, Sterling Hayden, Dr. Strangelove or
We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes because it's obscene!
— John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Marlon Brando, Apocalypse Now
Mary Kate Danaher: Could you use a little water in your whiskey? Michaleen Flynn: When I drink whiskey, I drink whiskey; and when I drink water, I drink water.
— Frank S. Nugent, Maurice Walsh, John Ford, Mary Kate Danaher, Maureen O'Hara, The Quiet Man
Benjamin: For God's sake, Mrs. Robinson. Here we are. You got me into your house. You give me a drink. You... put on music. Now, you start opening up your personal life to me and tell me your husband won't be home for hours. Mrs. Robinson: So? Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me!
— Calder Willingham, Ben Braddock, Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
It doesn't make sense. I mean what happened. It had nothing to do with the Clutters. They never hurt me. They just happened to be there. I thought Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman... I thought so right up to the time I cut his throat.
It's the national pastime, baby, stealin' and cheatin'. If they ever count every cheatin' wife and tax chiseler, the whole country would be behind prison walls.
— Richard Brooks, Richard 'Dick' Hickcock, Scott Wilson, In Cold Blood
Becoming is never simply a becoming toward something, but a becoming away from something as well.
To catch sight of the invisible is to sight the relations that buoy us up so that we might bob atop the surface of the world, like figures in a relief.
We have seen what you have been through (and what has been through you). You become clear.
The special character of space must show forth space itself.
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In our culture, the act of celebrating is very tied to specific reasons for celebration — birthdays, graduations, marriages and the like. There are certain markers that are universally understood: We eat cake. We dance. We break piñatas. 'But shame-eating a cake in your crib because you’re stressed…