Categories
Love Refusal

Two people shouldn’t know each other too well if they want to fall in love


Antonioni, Vitti
L’eclisse (1962)

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Inspirational, advice Threat, orders

Truth is not always a pleasant thing


Kubrick, Scott
Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Categories
Get well soon, health

The liver, if neglected invariably leads to cirrhosis


Pierrot le fou (1965)

Categories
Disappointment Sadness

That’s what makes me sad: life is so different from books


Godard, Karina
Pierrot le fou (1965)

That’s all right. They don’t have to be blue


3:10 to Yuma (1957)

Categories
Work

Sure, how much does the job pay?

 

McCarey, Chico Marx
Duck Soup (1933)

Categories
Get well soon, health Inspirational, advice

Stop thinking about yourself. You’ll get well


I’ll Be Seeing You (1944)

Categories
Love Threat, orders

Sometimes you annoy me so much I want to bite you

Rohmer, Poupaud
Un conte d’été (1996)

Categories
Reproach, rudeness

Some of the East German police were rude and suspicous…

"… some were suspicious and rude." Wilder
One, Two, Three (1961)

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Surprise, wonder

Share? You don’t tell them to just get a job?


Trumbo (2015)

Categories
Sadness Shame, guilt

Right now I wish I could crawl in a hole and pull it in after me

(See also)

 

Wilder, Olson
Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Categories
Condolences, consolation Get well soon, health Hope, desire Inspirational, advice

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles

Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

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Refusal

No feminist or queer propaganda


The Professor (2018)

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Happiness, satisfaction Inspirational, advice Refusal

Money will never make you happy…


… and happy will never make you money
The Cocoanuts (1929)

Categories
Love Wedding, marriage

Marriage is when the woman asks the man to take off his pajamas

… because she wants to send them to the laundry


Donen, Audrey Hepburn, Finney
Two for the Road (1967)

Categories
Uncategorized

Maybe you were too busy lynching Negroes…


… to take time out for the Jews
Ship of Fools (1965)

Categories
Loneliness Refusal

If I’m gonna be alone, I wanna be by myself

(VF)

Huston, Monroe
The Misfits (1961)

Categories
Reproach, rudeness

I think people that talk in metaphors ought to shampoo my crotch

Nicholson
As Good as It Gets (1997)

Categories
Disappointment

I never know what to think anymore


… I'm being constantly disillusioned
Midnight in Paris (2011)

Categories
Happiness, satisfaction Love

I love walking with you

Allen, Wilson, Cotillard
Midnight in Paris (2011)

Categories
Threat, orders

How do we know you are really a writer?

 

Cronenberg
Naked Lunch (1991)

Categories
Happiness, satisfaction Love Sadness Thank you

God bless you for the little bit of happiness you gave me

Visconti, Mastroianni
Le notti bianche (1957)

Categories
Happiness, satisfaction Love

Do you love me? Do you ?

More baths

Donen, Audrey Hepburn, Finney
Two for the Road (1967)

Categories
Uncategorized

Can you tell us what was China like?


Zemeckis, Hanks
Forrest Gump (1994)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Sex

A laughing woman is disarmed, you can do what you like


Renoir, Carette, Dalio
La Règle du jeu (1939)

Categories
Reproach, rudeness

You’re totally full of shit!


Nicholson
Five Easy Pieces (1970)

Categories
Congratulations, compliments Love

You’re one of those rare people


The Bishop’s Wife (1947)

Categories
Love Surprise, wonder

You’re a strange girl


La Belle et la Bête (1946)

Categories
Good News Love

You’ll fall in love again


Reed, Cotten
The Third Man (1949)

Categories
Refusal

You must remember that you are not God


The Two Popes (2019)

Categories
Uncategorized

You women, you remember everything a guy says and then you hit him with it


Curtiz, Garfield, Neal
The Breaking Point (1950)

Categories
Disappointment Wedding, marriage

You had to marry me, spoil everything…


Hawks, Grant, Russell
His Girl Friday (1940)

Categories
Boredom Disappointment

You come to someplace new, and everything looks just the same


Jarmusch, Lurie
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

Categories
Hope, desire New Year

May this year give us a fucking break


1985 (2018)

Categories
Hope, desire New Year Sadness

Well, if there’s nothing else, this shitty year is about to come to an end


1985 (2018)

Categories
Fear

These are Marxists, not normal people. They do not reason the way you reason

Lumet, Matthau
Fail-Safe (1964)

Categories
Fear

There’s always a possibility that some asshole will be offended


Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

Categories
Refusal Surprise, wonder

The very concept is unimaginable


Hitchcock, Hedren
The Birds (1963)

Categories
Disappointment

The old dreams were good dreams


Eastwood
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

Categories
Love

The first time I saw you, I knew what happiness meant


Le Jour se lève (1939)

Categories
Birthday, aging Stress, worry Surprise, wonder

She’s 23 years old and she’s exactly how we brought her up to be


Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

Categories
Love Sex

Tourists do it


Wilder
Love in the Afternooon (1957)

Categories
Love Sex

Poodles do it

In Sabrina, Sabrina Fairchild (Audrey Hepburn) had brought back from Paris a poodle named David.


Wilder
Love in the Afternooon (1957)

Categories
Excuses, justification Mothers' day Shame, guilt

No, Mother, I’ve not been drinking

 

Hitchcock, Grant
North by Northwest (1959)

Categories
Loneliness Love Refusal

Men and women can never get along

Carné, Gabin, Morgan
Le Quai des brumes (1938)

Categories
New Year Sadness

Everyone’s depressed on New Year’s Eve


New Year’s Eve (2011)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Love

Love is everything. Just remember that


Love Streams (1984)

Categories
Inspirational, advice Love

Love is a stream


Love Streams (1984)

Categories
Hope, desire Inspirational, advice New Year

Love in any of its forms. Love gives us hope


New Year’s Eve (2011)

Categories
Reproach, rudeness

Look up “idiot” in the dictionary. You know what you’ll find?


Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)