Author Archives: Marya E. Gates
Movie Quote of the Day – Mystery Men, 1999 (dir. Kinka Usher)
The Shoveller: We’re not your classic superheroes. We’re not the favorites. We’re the other guys. We’re the guys nobody bets on.
Movie Quote of the Day – Conversations With Other Women, 2005 (dir. Hans Canosa)
Man: Why did you come, really?
Woman: Do you want me to say I was hoping I’d see you?
Man: Yes – and I want you to mean it.
Woman: You’re so romantic.
Man: By romantic, you mean, what, old fashioned?
Woman: No, by romantic, I mean romantic.
Movie Quote of the Day – They Drive by Night, 1940 (dir. Raoul Walsh)
Joe Fabrini: I always have liked redheads.
Cassie Hartley: You shouldn’t. Red means stop.
Joe Fabrini: I’m colorblind.
Movie Quote of the Day – TRON: Legacy, 2010 (dir. Joseph Kosinski)
Quorra: What’s next, Sam?
Sam Flynn: Guess we’re suppose to change the world.
Movie Quote of the Day – Cosmopolis, 2012 (dir. David Cronenberg)
Eric Packer: I remember what you told me once.
Didi Fancher: What’s that?
Eric Packer: Talent is more erotic when it’s wasted.
Didi Fancher: What did I mean?
Movie Quote of the Day – Orlando, 1992 (dir. Sally Potter)
First Official: One :You are legally dead, and therefore cannot hold any property whatsoever.
Orlando: Ah. Fine.
First Official: Two: You are now a female.
Second Official: Which amounts to much the same thing.
Female Filmmaker Friday: Starstruck, 1982 (dir. Gillian Armstrong)
Gillian Armstrong is one of my favorite directors. Later on I will write about My Brilliant Career and Little Women (1994), which is one of my all-time favorite movies. I’ve seen that one more than any other film I think. Which brings me to this week’s Female Filmmaker Friday on Armstrong’s sophomore feature Startruck. I actually bought this film without knowing anything about it other than it was directed by Armstrong and came in a shiny pink DVD case. Amazon recommended it when I bought Susan Seidelman’s Smithereens. Definitely one of the best cold-buys I’ve ever done.
Movie Quote of the Day – Cutter’s Way, 1981 (dir. Ivan Passer)
Richard Bone: You know, you have one big problem.
Alex Cutter: What’s that?
Richard Bone: Your imagination.
Alex Cutter: These are just the facts, Rich. I mean, I haven’t even begun to let my imagination loose on this one.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Magic of Belle Isle, 2012 (dir. Rob Reiner)
Monte Wildhorn: In the future I would appreciate you’re not walking my dog.
Charlotte O’Neil: He’s Dave’s dog.
Monte Wildhorn: I am not claiming to be his biological father.
Movie Quote of the Day – Cattle Drive, 1951 (dir. Kurt Neumann)
Chester Graham Jr.:I have no intention of eating your “grub,” as you call it.
Dan Matthews: Come chow time, you’ll change your mind. Come on, we haven’t got all day.
Chester Graham Jr.: I’m not going with you and I’m not going on any dirty old cattle drive.
Dan Matthews: Hmm. I guess we’ll have to use the same tactics we use with the buckity colt.
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