“Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.”
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Simon Dermott: There’s the bathroom, take off your clothes.
Nicole Bonnet: Are we planning the same sort of crime?
- Peter O’Toole & Audrey Hepburn in How To Steal A Million (1966, d. William Wyler)
Marcello Mastroanni and Stefania Sandrelli in Divorzio all’italiana (Divorce Italian Style (1961) d. Pietro Germi)
“Imaginative ideas, many of them from the fertile mind of Director Stanley Kubrick, included this one. Kubrick put the numbered signs among the ‘corpses’ after the big battle so that he could holler, ‘You there, next to number 163, move over or look dead or something.’”
“The total effect is grimly stimulating from the visual standpoint, depressing in the conclusions drawn. Whether one sides with his views or not, Gualtiero Jacopetti deserves credit for a shattering view of the world.” - Variety Magazine
Mondo Cane (1962, d. Paolo Cavara, Franco Prosperi, and Gualtiero Jacopetti)
Paul Newman in Absence of Malice (d. Sydney Pollack, 1981)
Jonathan: If you had a choice…
Sandy: Yeah?
Jonathan: Would you rather love a girl, or have her love you?
Sandy: I want it mutual.
Jonathan: I mean if you couldn’t have it mutual.
Sandy: You mean would I rather be the one who loves, or is loved?
Jonathan: Yeah.
Sandy: It’s not that easy a question. But, I think I’d rather be in love.
Jonathan: Me too.
- Jack Nicholson (Jonathan) & Art Garfunkel (Sandy) in Carnal Knowledge (d. Mike Nichols, 1971)
The Detective: That’s the problem with lowlifes… They’re unreliable.
- Ryan O’Neal & Isabelle Adjani in The Driver (d. Walter Hill, 1978)
Klute (d. Alan Pakula, 1971)
Petra von Kant: It’s sad, believe me, when you realize that the distressing things by far outweigh the beautiful things you feel.
- Margit Carstensen in Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (d. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
Sally: Where do you want to get?
Sidney Falco: Way up high, Sal, where the air is balmy.
- Sweet Smell of Success (d. Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
