May 2012
5 posts
Nasty stuff
Terrence: Clothes maketh the man; and the less there is of the man, the more the need of the clothes.
Spider, David Cronenberg, 2002
Kaput
Patricia Olson: We’re in the show together. We have to keep up the appearance of respectability. Bob Crane: I can be very respectable.
Auto Focus, Paul Schrader, 2002
Where I come from, you die with your secrets.
Big Dave: Listen, I ain’t saying a fucking word. I already talked to the fucking cops. Patrick Kenzie: All right. Dave, right? Big Dave: Big Dave. Patrick Kenzie: Big Dave. All right. I’m Medium Patrick. Nice to meet you.
Gone Baby Gone, Ben Affleck, 2007
Bad day. Fuck it.
Interrogation Cop: Number 1, step forward. Hockney: Hand me the keys, you fucking cocksucker. Interrogation Cop: Number 2, step forward. McManus: Give me the fucking keys, you fucking cocksucking motherfucker, aaarrrghh. Interrogation Cop: Knock it off. Get back. Number 3, step forward. Fenster: [laughing] Hand me the keys, you cocksucker. Interrogation Cop: In English, please? Fenster:...
Heroes of the day
Johnnie Gray: [to the recruiter who rejects him] If you lose this war don’t blame me.
The General, Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton, 1926
April 2012
2 posts
And when he woke up, he was on fire
Walt: I thought you were afraid of heights. Travis: I’m not afraid of heights. I’m afraid of fallin’.
Paris, Texas, Wim Wenders, 1984
You're gonna have to grow up. There's a war on.
Jim Byrd: You’re 32 years old, and you’ve achieved nothing. Jesus Christ was dead and alive again by 33. You better get crackin’.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, George Clooney, 2002
March 2012
4 posts
Appearances can be... deceptive
Osbourne Cox: And you’re my wife’s lover? Ted Treffon: No. Osbourne Cox: Then what are you doing here? I know you. You’re the guy from the gym. Ted Treffon: I’m not here representing HardBodies. Osbourne Cox: Oh, yes. I know very well what you represent. You represent the idiocy of today. Ted Treffon: No, I don’t represent that either.
Burn After Reading,...
Never chase the bid
Frank Vitale: Here. [Hands Michael a pistol] Frank Vitale: Stick it in your pants, maybe you’ll look the part.
Mickey Blue Eyes, Kelly Makin, 1999
I am in a post-graduate delirium
Jed: Relationships are, you know, it’s not rocket science. If you find yourself having to really think about it a lot, it’s over.
Tiny Furniture, Lena Dunham, 2010
Shocks are so much better absorbed with the knees...
Sergeant Howie: What religion can they possibly be learning jumping over bonfires? Lord Summerisle: Parthenogenesis. Sergeant Howie: What? Lord Summerisle: Literally, as Miss Rose would doubtless say in her assiduous way, reproduction without sexual union. Sergeant Howie: Oh, what is all this? I mean, you’ve got fake biology, fake religion… Sir, have these children never heard of...
February 2012
3 posts
Hey, Dangerous Person
Man on phone: D’you want to leave a message? Jarrod: Tell him that justice is waiting for him. Man on phone: OK Justin. Thank you. Bye bye. [hangs up] Jarrod: No, justice. Justice.
Eagle vs Shark, Taika Waititi, 2007
I'm lookin' at your face and I just wanna smash it
Barry: I wanted to ask you something because you’re a doctor… I don’t like myself sometimes. Can you help me? Walter: Barry, I’m a dentist. What kind of help do you think I could give you?
Punch-Drunk Love, Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002
You make love without fading out?
Cecilia: I just met a wonderful new man. He’s fictional but you can’t have everything.
The Purple Rose of Cairo, Woody Allen, 1985
January 2012
5 posts
You're right. We're sick.
Teresa Gazelle: [referring to Nicky’s teacher] She said he’s always distracted and he never finishes his work, and she wants to get him tested. Joey Gazelle: Wait, she wants to get him tested? Tested for what? Teresa Gazelle: I think maybe, uh, attention disorder or something. Nicky Gazelle: I’m not fucking A.D.D. Joey Gazelle: Hey! You don’t use that word in front of...
I hope your kids have bad influences and develop...
Older Daughter: Mom, what is a “cunt”? Mother: Where did you learn that word? Older Daughter: On a case on top of the VCR. Mother: A “cunt” is a large lamp. Example: The “cunt” switched off and the room got all dark.
Dogtooth, Giorgos Lanthimos, 2009
Don't be difficult
Walt Berkman: It’s Welles’ masterpiece, really. Many people think it’s Citizen Kane, but Magnificent Ambersons, if it hadn’t been ruined by the studio, would’ve been his crowning achievement. As it is, it’s still brilliant. It’s the old story, genius not being recognized by the industry. Lance: It sounds great. Who’s in it? Walt Berkman: Orson...
It's a business lie, it's different from a life...
Lynn: How’d she die? Norah: It was sorta a do-it-yourself thing
Sunshine Cleaning, Christine Jeffs, 2008.
Everything begins and ends at the exactly right...
Edith: Why can’t we just sit on this log, and look at the ugly old rock from here?
Picnic at Hanging Rock, Peter Weir, 1975
December 2011
1 post
It isn't a matter of hate. It is a biological...
Dr. Alan Chaffee: I don’t see why we can’t reach an understanding. Why can’t we just live together? Mara Chaffee: If we coexist, we shall dominate you.
Village of the Damned, John Carpenter, 1995
November 2011
2 posts
Relax... it's only magic
Sarah: What’s wrong with her? Rochelle: Her spell’s not working. Bonnie: What spell? Rochelle: I don’t know. She doesn’t want to be white trash anymore. I told her, “You’re white honey! Just get over it.”
The Craft, Andrew Fleming, 1996
Let's shop
Hannah: Are you trying to kill me? Selena: No, sweetheart. I’m making you not care.
28 Days Later…, Danny Boyle, 2002.
September 2011
3 posts
Cause everybody knows guy in the back seat doesn't...
Zia: They went to the North Pole or whatever the place Nanuk is from is called
Wristcutters: A Love Story, Goran Dukic, 2006
This will probably involve me urinating or...
Jill Tate: They’re our neighbours.
Oliver Tate: Who, the ninjas?
Jill Tate: Do not call them ninjas, Oliver. It’s racist.
Submarine, Richard Ayoade, 2010
Ah, war is hell
Blood: A cautous young fellow named Lodge / Had seatbelts installed in his Dodge. / When his date was strapped in / He committed a sin / Without even leaving the garage. That’s clever, isn’t it?
A boy and his dog, L.Q. Jones, 1975
August 2011
2 posts
Oh, you're cute... like a velvet glove cast in...
The Old Man: You girls a bunch of nudists or are you just short of clothes?
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Russ Meyer, 1965
Eat your waffles, fat man.
Penelope Stamp: I think you’re constipated, in your fucking soul… I think you might have a really big load of grumpy petrified poop up your soul’s ass.
The Brothers Bloom, Rian Johnson, 2008
June 2011
2 posts
Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff
Toby Radloff: How long are you going to be in Delaware? Because I’d really like to see this movie with you. Harvey Pekar: I don’t know. I’ll be gone about a week. But I’m getting married, so I’ll have to bring her along too. Is it a girl flick? Toby Radloff: Depends on the girl. Is your new bride a nerd? Harvey Pekar: I don’t know. Kinda. Yeah. She’s...
And please do drop dead.
Nick Twisp:Oh, I’m not familiar with futurist percussive poems.
Sheeni Saunders: I could recite one of Trent’s, if you like?
Nick Twisp: Please do.
Sheeni Saunders: “Ram dam twelve; Sizzle mop; Crunch down; Safety net; Hot, hot, hot void.”
Nick Twisp: Well, that certainly sounds like a poem.
Youth in revolt, Miguel Arteta, 2009
April 2011
1 post
People always end up the way they started out.
Joyce Victor: [Talking about Aviva’s unborn fetus] It’s not a baby. It’s just a tumor.
Palindromes, Todd Solondz, 2004
January 2011
1 post
Your voice is not at all what I expected .
Ariel Schulman: Never accept fan art. It just leads you into some weird places
Catfish, Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman, 2010
December 2010
6 posts
Nice tuxedo. Nice tuxedo to die in!
Mesh-Head: If I were you, I would run. Buddy: If you were me, you’d be good-lookin’
Six-string samurai, Lance Mungia, 1998
Two weeks. Two weeks.
Sam Bell:Oh, and I just wanted to thank you for sending out the football feed. Almost felt live!
Sam Bell:Seriously, I don’t mean to be an asshole, but surely replacing one satellite can’t be that fucking hard
Moon, Duncan Jones, 2009
Es-ki-mo...
Pauline Fleming: I think it’s a good opportunity to share the… feelings that this suicide has spurred in all of us. Now, who would like to begin? Female Stoner: I heard it was really gnarly. She sucked down a bowl of multi-purpose deodorizing disinfectant, and then SMASH. Pauline Fleming: Now Tracey, let’s not rehash the coroner’s report. Let’s talk emotions.
...
Probably burned truck loads of your stuff before....
Burt Hadley: Business is slow. I mean, I told my boss about the - your condition and stuff, and he said try and rent him another room. Leonard Shelby: So how many rooms am I checked into in this shit-hole? Burt Hadley: Just two, so far. Leonard Shelby: Well, at least you’re being honest about ripping me off. Burt Hadley: Well, you’re not gonna remember anyway.
Memento,...
Your love glass is half full.
Michael Cera: This is great, Charlyne. I can show my family now what you look like.
Michael Cera: Or you can just come over and they can see your face.
Paper Heart, Nicholas Jasenovec, 2009
We are not friends. We are hunters.
Devon: He just gave me a turtle mom
Clare Stockard:People just don’t give away turtles.
Lawn Dogs, John Duigan, 1997
November 2010
8 posts
Why are you dressed like a priest?
Pero: Please, your honor I’m here to confess. That man is innocent. Your honor I can no longer live with the guilt. It was me who was stealing that car, I confess. My brother Cosimo, Saint Cosimo as he’s known on the streets, was only trying to stop me. And I told him, ‘Cosimo, I need to steal this car, I’m a car thief, I steal cars… by myself.’
Welcome to...
That's the beauty of argument, if you argue...
Jeff Megall: Sony has a futuristic sci-fi movie they’re looking to make. Nick Naylor: Cigarettes in space? Jeff Megall: It’s the final frontier, Nick. Nick Naylor: But wouldn’t they blow up in an all oxygen environment? Jeff Megall: Probably. But it’s an easy fix. One line of dialogue. ‘Thank God we invented the… you know, whatever device.’
Thank...
Relax... he'll call back
Lieutenant Danny Roman: A quick lesson in lying. See, this is what us real cops do: We study liars. Example: If I ask you a question about something visual, like your favorite color, your eyes go up and to the left. Neurophysiology tells us your eyes go in that direction, because you’re accessing the visual cortex. So you’re telling the truth. If your eyes go up and right,...
We both know that one day you're going to lose...
Mark Bellison: I didn’t know that.
Brad Kessler: Yeah, a lot of people knew it.
Mark Bellison: What, you told other people you hated me?
Brad Kessler: Yeah. I even turned some people against you.
Mark Bellison: Is that why you came over to talk to me? To tell me you hated me?
Brad Kessler: No, I came to say goodbye to you, and the rest of it just sort of happened on its own.
The...
Excuse me, what the fuck?
Charlie Wilson: You mean to tell me that the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan is to have the Afghans keep walking into machine gun fire ‘til the Russians run out of bullets? Gust Avrakotos: That’s Harold Holt’s strategy, it’s not U.S. strategy. Charlie Wilson: What is U.S. strategy? Gust Avrakotos: Well, strictly speaking, we don’t have one. But we’re working...
Today alone, I got 17 phone calls from my local...
Brenda Bartlett: We should at least pay for this boy's medical expenses.Scott Bartlett: Fine. He did hit me first.Brenda Bartlett: No, that was months ago.Scott Bartlett: And he called you a nigger-rich savage.Mickey Bartlett: Fuck him and his medical bills. Lymelife, Derick Martini, 2008
The TV must've gotten into his head and told him...
Lewis Denton: What do you have here? Clark: [nervously] Ken… napping. Lewis Denton: He looks dead. Anna: He is. Lewis Denton: I see.
The signal, David Bruckner, Dan Bush, Jacob Gentry, 2007
If I were Bionic Woman, what would I wear?
Harold Weir:Do you wanna know who else skipped classes? JIMMI HENDRIX! Do you know where he is now? DEAD! He choked in his own vomit!
Freaks and Geeks, Judd Apatow, 1999
October 2010
1 post
If you never do anything, you never become anyone
Helen: Someone told me that in about 50 years, no one will speak Latin, probably. Not even Latin people.
An education, Lone Scherfig, 2009
September 2010
4 posts
Dear Josh, we came by to fuck you, but you were...
Melorra: Oh my god, you guys. We actually made it! Enid: [Deadpan] Yeah. We graduated high school. How… totally… amazing.
Ghost world, Terry Zwigoff, 2001
We're not bad people, Mac... just underachievers...
McDuff: Let me get this straight. You got me here to kill me. Norm wasn’t enough? Joe ‘Mac’ McBeth: Norm was an accident. McDuff: Accidentally got tied up and fell in the fryilator? Joe ‘Mac’ McBeth: You know what… it’s kind of hard to explain, you sort of had to be there.
Scotland, Pa. Billy Morrissette, 2001
Look, she's laughing, he made her laugh.
Rannie: I baked a pie full of rat poison. I though I could eat it, you know, without being suspicious. My nana, who is 86…
[starts to break down]
Rannie: she really likes sweets. She had three pieces.
The virgin suicides, Sofia Coppola, 1999
I am not the Zodiac. And if I were, I certainly...
Robert Graysmith: How can someone who’s killed thirteen people… Paul Avery: He claims he killed thirteen people, but which ones can we actually confirm? There’s three in Vallejo, one in Berryessa, the cabbie, that’s it. [Graysmith looks confused] Paul Avery: Bobby, you almost look disappointed.
Zodiac, David Fincher, 2007