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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 – Any Day Now, 2012 (dir. Travis Fine)
Paul: I’m from Walla Walla, Washington.
Rudy: “Walla, Walla, Washington.” Very fun to say.
Paul: When I graduated from college, I took over the family insurance business, I married my sweetheart and everything was perfect, except. . .
Rudy: Let me guess, selling insurance bored you to death, and you secretly longed to meet the drag queen of your dreams? Oh, it’s the oldest story in the book: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy kicks open the closet door and finally meets Mr. Right.
Female Filmmaker Friday: That’s What She Said, 2012 (dir. Carrie Preston)
I’m starting a new feature on the blog (I’ll bring Oscar Vault Monday back soon, I promise!) wherein I will discuss (sometimes at length, other times just with something brief) films directed by women. Sometimes I’ll talk about some of the bigger names and bigger films (Jane Campion, Nora Ephron, Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola), but mostly I will be focusing on smaller, lesser known films directed (and often times written) by women.
Movie Quote of the Day – Anna Karenina, 2012 (dir. Joe Wright)
Anna: You should leave me.
Vronsky: I don’t want to. I love you.
Anna: Why?
Vronsky: You can’t ask why about love.
Movie Quote of the Day – Django Unchained, 2012 (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Calvin Candie: White cake?
Dr. King Schultz: I don’t go in for sweets, thank you.
Calvin Candie: Are you brooding ’bout me getting the best of ya, huh?
Dr. King Schultz: Actually, I was thinking of that poor devil you fed to the dogs today, D’Artagnan. And I was wondering what Dumas would make of all this.
Calvin Candie: Come again?
Dr. King Schultz: Alexander Dumas. He wrote “The Three Musketeers.” I figured you must be an admirer. You named your slave after his novel’s lead character. If Alexander Dumas had been there today, I wonder what he would have made of it?
Calvin Candie: You doubt he’d approve?
Dr. King Schultz: Yes. His approval would be a dubious proposition at best.
Calvin Candie: Soft hearted Frenchy?
Dr. King Schultz: Alexander Dumas is black.
Movie Quote of the Day – Beasts of the Southern Wild, 2012 (dir. Benh Zeitlin)
Hushpuppy: Everybody loses the thing that made them. It’s even how it’s supposed to be in nature. The brave men stay and watch it happen, they don’t run.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Master, 2012 (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Lancaster Dodd: There’s nothing I can do for you, if your mind has been made up. You seem to know the answers to your questions, why do you ask?
John More: I’m sorry you’re unwilling to defend your beliefs in any kind of rational. . .
Lancaster Dodd: If, if you, if you, if you already know the answers to your questions, then why ask PIG FUCK? We are not helpless. And we are on a journey that risks the dark. If you don’t mind, a good night to you.
Movie Quote of the Day – Rock of Ages, 2012 (dir. Adam Shankman)
Constance Sack: You know, some people have said that you’ve become quite difficult to work with. That you’re constantly late, you’re reclusive, sometimes even nonsensical.
Stacee Jaxx: I wanna ask you this: Have these people. . .even met themselves?
Constance Sack: Well, I’m talking about your band.
Stacee Jaxx: Let me tell you something. I know me better than anyone. . .because I live in here.
Movie Quote of the Day – Moonrise Kingdom, 2012 (dir. Wes Anderson)
Laura Bishop: I’m sorry Walt.
Walt Bishop: It’s not your fault. . .Which injuries are you apologizing for? Specifically.
Laura Bishop: Specifically? Whichever ones still hurt.
Walt Bishop: Half of those were self-inflicted. . .I hope the roof flies off, and I get sucked up into space. You’d be better off without me.
Laura Bishop: Stop feeling sorry for yourself.
Walt Bishop: Why?
Laura Bishop: We’re all they’ve got, Walt.
Walt Bishop: That’s not enough.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Devil’s Double, 2012 (dir. Lee Tamahori)
Uday Hussein: I had a word with Dr. Linz. He says your cock’s too big. We need to make a surgical reduction.
Latif Yahia: A what?
Uday Hussein: Chop a bit off.
Latif Yahia: What?
Uday Hussein: Not much. Just a teeny-weeny.
Latif Yahia: Not much?
Uday Hussein: My cock is well-known in Baghdad. The women, they talk. I’m just joking with you, you fuck!
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