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Enkele quotes uit de films van 2013

Een moeder spreekt haar dochter toe in Stoker:

Evelyn Stoker: You know, I’ve often wondered why it is we have children in the first place. And the conclusion I’ve come to is… At some point in our lives we realize things are screwed up beyond repair. So we decide to start again. Wipe the slate clean. Start fresh. And then we have children. Little carbon copies we can turn to and say, “You will do what I could not. You will succeed where I have failed.” Because we want someone to get it right this time. But not me… Personally speaking I can’t wait to watch life tear you apart.

Cameron Diaz verkondigt harde waarheden in The Counselor:

Reiner: Are you really that cold?

Malkina: The truth has no temperature.

Frances Ha heeft iets te zeggen over de liefde, en het leven:

Frances: It’s that thing when you’re with someone, and you love them and they know it, and they love you and you know it… but it’s a party… and you’re both talking to other people, and you’re laughing and shining… and you look across the room and catch each other’s eyes… but — but not because you’re possessive, or it’s precisely sexual… but because… that is your person in this life. And it’s funny and sad, but only because this life will end, and it’s this secret world that exists right there in public, unnoticed, that no one else knows about. It’s sort of like how they say that other dimensions exist all around us, but we don’t have the ability to perceive them. That’s — That’s what I want out of a relationship. Or just life, I guess.

George Clooney vertolkt in Gravity wat ik denk bij 90% van de sci-fi films die ik zie:

Ryan Stone: I hate space!

Ons koloniaal verleden krijgt nog eens een shout-out van de slechterik in Red 2:

Jack Horton: Speaking of Sarah. I love watching her shave her legs in the tub. Kinda reminds me of these Belgian mercs I met in the Congo. They would skin people alive to get them to talk.

Rush legt een waarheid in de mond van Lauda:

Niki Lauda: Happiness is your biggest enemy. It weakens you. Puts doubts in your mind. Suddenly you have something to lose.

Jeremy Irons vertelt een anekdote in Night Train to Lisbon

Raimund Gregorius: We threw a party for our colleagues… our friends. And she found this quote, from Pessoa: “The fields are greener in their description, than in their actual greenness.” And somebody said: “Oh, that’a beautiful sentence” and I said: “Yes, but only a few people will ever understand it”. And there was this terrible silence. And then she said, my wife: “And I suppose you are one of the chosen few?”.

Seven Psychopaths bood filosofisch inzicht:

Hans: An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind, I believe that wholeheartedly.

Billy: No it doesn’t. There’ll be one guy left with one eye. Hows the last blind guy gonna take out the eye of the last guy left, who’s still got one eye! All that guy has to do is run away and hide behind a bush. Gandhi was wrong, it’s just that nobody’s got the balls to come right out and say it.

… en commentaar op gender in film:

Hans: Marty, I’ve been reading your movie. Your women characters are awful. None of them have anything to say for themselves. And most of them get either shot or stabbed to death within five minutes. And the ones that don’t probably will later on.

Marty: Well, it’s a hard world for women. I guess that’s what I’m trying to say.

Hans: Yeah, it’s a hard world for women, but most of the ones I know can string a sentence together.

The Best Offer observeerde ook iets over vrouwen:

Virgil Oldman: What’s it like living with a woman?

Lambert: Like taking part in an auction sale. You never know if yours will be the best offer.

En we eindigen met de laatste woorden van The Master:

Freddie Quell: You’re the bravest girl I’ve ever met. Now stick it back in, it fell out.