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Movie Quote of the Day – The 39 Steps, 1935 (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Richard Hannay: There are million women in this island, and I’m chained to you. Listen, once more. I’m telling you the truth. I told you once in the train. I tried to tell you after the election meeting. I’m telling you now for the third time. There’s a danagerous conspiracy against this island and we’re the only ones who can stop it. Think what you’ve seen happen right under your very nose.
Pamela: The gallant knight to the rescue.
Richard Hannay: All right, then I’m just a plain, common murderer who stabbed an innocent, defenseless woman in the back not four days ago. How do you come out over that? I don’t know how innocent you may be but you’re a woman, you’re defenseless, and you’re alone on a desolate moor in the dark, manacled to a murderer who’d stop at nothing to get you off his hands. If that’s the situation you prefer, have it, my lovely, and welcome.
Pamela: I’m not afraid of. . .
Richard Hannay: For all you know, I may murder a woman a week.
Movie Quote of the Day – Escape From New York, 1981 (dir. John Carpenter)
Bob Hauk: There was an accident. About an hour ago, a small jet went down inside New York City. The President was on board.
Snake Plissken: President of what?
Bob Hauk: That’s not funny, Plissken. You go in, find the President, bring him out in 24 hours, and you’re a free man.
Snake Plissken: 24 hours, huh?
Bob Hauk: I’m making you an offer.
Snake Plissken: Bullshit!
Bob Hauk: Straight just like I said.
Snake Plissken: I’ll think about it.
Bob Hauk: No time. Give me an answer.
Snake Plissken: Get a new president!
Bob Hauk: We’re still at war, Plissken. We need him alive.
Snake Plissken: I don’t give a fuck about your war. . .or your president.
Bob Hauk: Is that your answer?
Snake Plissken: I’m thinking about it.
Bob Hauk: Think hard.
Snake Plissken: [beat] Why me?
Bob Hauk: You flew the Gullfire over Leningrad. You know how to get in quiet. You’re all I got.
Snake Plissken: I guess I go in one way or the other. . .doesn’t mean shit to me. All right. . .I’ll do it. Give me the pardon paper.
Bob Hauk: When you come out.
Snake Plissken: Before.
Bob Hauk: I told you I wasn’t a fool, Plissken.
Snake Plissken: Call me Snake.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Dreamers, 2003 (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
Matthew: I read it in Cahiers du Cinéma. “A filmmaker is like a Peeping Tom.” A voyeur. It’s as if the camera is a the keyhole to your parents’ bedroom. And you spy on them, and you’re disgusted. You feel guilty but you can’t. . .you can’t look away. It makes films like crimes and directors like criminals. It should be illegal.
Theo: There goes my chance to be a filmmaker.
Matthew: Why?
Theo: My parents always left the bedroom door open.
Movie Quote of the Day – Videodrome, 1983 (dir. David Cronenberg)
Barry Convex: Death to Videodrome. Long live the new flesh.
Max Renn: Death to Videodrome. Long live the new flesh.
Movie Quote of the Day – Billy Elliott, 2000 (dir. Stephen Daldry)
Billy: What about your mum? Does she not have sex?
Debbie: No, she’s unfulfilled. That’s why she does dancing.
Billy: She does dancing instead of sex? Your family’s weird!
Debbie: No they’re not.
Movie Quote of the Day – Into The Wild, 2007 (dir. Sean Penn)
Christopher McCandless: What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?
Movie Quote of the Day – Arthur, 1981 (dir. Steve Gordon)
Hobson: You spoiled little bastard! You’re a man who has everything, haven’t you? But that’s not enough. You feel unloved. Arthur, welcome to the world. Everyone is unloved. Now stop feeling sorry for yourself. And incidentally, I love you. Marry Susan, Arthur. Poor drunks do not find love, Arthur. Poor drunks have very few teeth, they urinate outdoors, they freeze to death in summer. I can’t bear to think of you that way.
Arthur: I need Linda, Hobson.
Hobson: I see. Well, perhaps fate will lend a hand. One never knows.
Movie Quote of the Day – Ghost World, 2001 (dir. Terry Zwigoff)
Enid: I think only stupid people have good relationships.
Seymour: That’s the spirit.
Movie Quote of the Day – Crash, 2005 (dir. Paul Haggis)
Cameron: I mean, sooner or later, you gotta find out what it’s really like to be black.
Christine: Oh, fuck you man! Like you’d know! The closest you ever came to being black, Cameron, was watching “The Cosby Show”.
Cameron: Yeah, well, at least I wasn’t watching it with the rest of the equestrian team.
Movie Quote of the Day – Copie conforme, 2011 (dir. Abbas Kiarostami)
Elle: Look at your wife, who has made herself pretty today. Look. Open your eyes.
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