Lines from the Silver Screen

Here's a couple of my favorite quotes from movies I liked or even loved:


Except for this one:
“For quite a few years, I was a pedagogue, a teacher in the music academy, and my students would ask me many, many things, including how to write and what to write. I always answered this way: If you can live without music for 2 or 3 days, then don't write…It might be better to spend time with a girl or with a beer…If you cannot live without music, then write.” - Henryk Górecki


Everything else gives me a vivid picture of the scene as the characters verbalized it:


1. "You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"" - Seredipity (2001) - John Cusack


2. You know how when you're listening to music playing from another room? And you're singing along because it's a tune that you really love? When a door closes or a train passes so you can't hear the music anymore, but you sing along anyway... then, no matter how much time passes, when you hear the music again you're still in exact same time with it. That's what it's like." - Music From Another Room (1998) - Jude Law


3. "Dia, What are you doing? Dia! Look at me, look at me. What are you doing? You are Dia Vendy, of the proud Mende tribe.... I know they made you do bad things, but you are not a bad boy. I am your father who loves you. And you will come home with me and be my son again." - Blood Diamond (2006) - Solomon Djoujou


4. "What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?" - High Fidelity (2000) - John Cusack


5. "Life's funny. To a kid, time always drags. Suddenly you're fifty. All that's left of your childhood... fits in a rusty little box." - Amelie (2001) - 


6. "... I can't love people in slices" - First Knight (1994) - Sean Connery




I will most likely have sequels to this entry. 




MC