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Distraction is an obstraction for the construction.
(Stéphanie in ‘Science of Sleep’, Michel Gondry, 2006)

Writers are vampires. I’m waiting for the right girl to come along and make me a human being.
(Sam Shapiro in ‘The Private Lives of Pippa Lee’, Rebecca Miller, 2009)

Marta: The women look so beautiful.
Kurt: I think they look ugly.
Brigitta: You just say that because you are scared of them.
Kurt: Silly, only grown-up men are scared of women.
(Dialogue from ‘The Sound of Music’, Robert Wise, 1965)

Get us girls a couple of days and we got over everything.
(April Wheeler in ‘Revolutionary Road’, Sam Mendes, 2008)

If you are my dream then I am yours.
(Alex David in ‘Reconstruction’, Christoffer Boe, 2003)

Perfection is not just a result of total control, but also of the talent to let go.
(Thomas Leroy in ‘Black Swan’, Darren Aronofsky, 2010)

Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.
(Nash in ‘A Beautiful Mind’, Ron Howard, 2001)

We tend to do dumb shit when we’re fucked up.
(Mike Tyson in ‘Hangover’, Todd Phillips, 2009)

What we have here is a dreamer. Someone completely out of touch with reality.
(Tim Weiner in ‘The Virgin Suicides’, Sofia Coppola, 1999)

We’re all children. We all need approval.
(J.D. Bauby in ‘Le Scaphandre et le Papillon’, Julian Schnabel, 2008)

People should be able to say how they feel – how they really feel – not some words that some strangers put in their mouths.
(Tom in ‘(500) Says of Summer’, Marc Webb, 2009)

Your life is defined by its opportunities. Even the ones you miss.
(Benjamin Button in ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, David Fincher, 2009)

This whole world’s wild at heart and weird on top.
(Lulu in ‘Wild at Heart’, David Lynch, 1990)

Only unfulfilled love can be romantic.
(Juan Antonio in ‘Vicky Christina Barcelona’, Woody Allen, 2008)

I think everyone has two birthdays. The day of his physical birth and the beginning of his conscious life.
(Lisa Berndl in ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman’, Max Ophüls, 1948)

Wow, what a speech! Half Moses, half Mickey Mouse.
(Said in ‘La Haine’, Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)

If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don’t mind being completely insane.
(April in ‘Revolutionary Road’, Sam Mendes, 2008)

Jeanne: Why you don’t want to know anything about me? Is it because you hate women? What have they ever done to you?
Paul: Well,… either they always pretend to know who I am or they pretend I don’t know who they are and that’s very boring.
(Dialogue from ‘Last Tango in Paris’, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)

Chaos reigns.
(Fox in “Antichrist”, Lars von Trier, 2009)

Remember, damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
(Anna Barton in ‘Damage’, Louis Malle, 1992)

Lester: You are a complicated woman, aren’t you?
Kathy: I am not. I am just really good in complicating things.
(Dialogue from ‘House of Sand and Fog’, Vadim Perelma, 2003)

Stéphanie: Why me?
Stéphane: Because everyone else is boring. And you are different.
(Dialogue from ‘Science of Sleep’, Michel Gondry, 2006)

There are songs that make us want to dance, songs that make us want to sing along, but the best songs bring you back to the moment you first heard them and once again break your heart.
(in ‘Gossip Girl’)

Life isn’t like in the movies. Life… is much harder. (…) Out of the fire of love comes ashes. Even the greatest love eventually fizzles out.
(Alfredo in ‘Cinema Paradiso’, Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)

GERMAN

Es ist nicht ungewöhnlich. Viele Leute leben so. Sie reisen und sehen sich die Welt an, und dann kommen sie zurück und arbeiten, und wenn sie genug Geld verdient haben, fahren sie wieder los, woanders hin.
(aus ‘Nichts als Gespenster’, Martin Gypkens, 2006)

Weißt Du was ich manchmal denke? Es müsste immer Musik da sein, bei allem, was du machst. Und wenn’s so richtig scheisse ist, ist wenigstens noch die Musik da. Und an der Stelle, wo’s am allerschönsten ist, da müsste die Platte springen und du hörst immer nur diesen einen Moment.
(Floyd in ‘Absolute Giganten’, Sebastian Schipper, 1999)

Wenn man ein Risiko eingeht, kann man verlieren. Wenn man kein Risiko eingeht, verliert man immer.
(Hélène in ‘Joueuse’, Caroline Bottaro, 2009)

Augen ohne Gehirn? Das Gehirn muss vergessen können, um zu sehen. Mein Gehirn hinkte hinterher. Meine Augen fühlten es. Schon beginne ich zu sehen.
(Max Cohen in “Pi”, Darren Aronofsky, 1998)

Die Liebe ist langmütig, die Liebe ist gütig, die Liebe ist nicht eifersüchtig. Sie prahlt nicht, überhebt sich nicht, sie handelt nicht unschicklich, sucht nicht das Ihre, kennt keine Erbitterung, trägt das Böse nicht nach. Am Unrecht hat sie kein Gefallen, freut sich aber an der Wahrheit. Alles erträgt sie, alles glaubt sie, alles erhofft sie, alles erduldet sie.
(Hohelied der Liebe, Kor 1/Kpt 13, zitiert von Yoko in “Love Exposure”, Shion Sono, 2008)