2013 film log

"You know yourself it's an impossible tale. A funeral at New Year's is hard to pull off. Imagine dying after choking on a rice cake...that's so like Grandma."

"Miles, you're biting my nails."
"It's because you're tense."

"I worked with Freud in Vienna. We broke over the concept of penis envy. Freud felt that it should be limited to women."

"Has anything you've done made your life better?"

"Show business is dog-eat-dog. It's worse than dog-eat-dog. It's dog-doesn't-return-other-dog's-phone-calls, which reminds me - I should check my answering service."

"What happens to those of us who can't create?"

"You can't let the animals die in a movie...only the women."

"How can man live in a box?"

"If a dead person learns they're still alive in this life, can they reach Nirvana?"

"Religion is obscurity."

"You use the same phrases about Goldfrapp as they use on Amazon.com."

"You're taking a picture of yourself at Ground Zero: do you smile?"

"You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert."

"I was wondering what Dumas would have thought of all this."

"Blind bravery like yours is a burden to others. Christianity is like an unwelcome gift, that is forced on the receiver."

"My fingers are gone."

"You have poor social skills. You have a problem."

"Mountains smell of young green leaves in spring. The leaves wash our eyes with their tears of mercy."

"Your life or even tomorrow's lunch - no one knows what it'll be."

"Sex alleviates tension, and love causes it."

"I guess there's just two kinds of people, Miss Sandstone: MY kind of people, and assholes."

"Things will go on, and then one day it will all be over."

"You have no respect for cognitive reverie, you know that?"

"People...such strange animals."

"This isn't a novel, this is a film. A film is life."

"Everyone's a coward about something."

"It's not a war! We're just killing each other."

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

"The world moves for love. It kneels before it in awe."

"I've never seen anything really beautiful since I was born."

"We must not want too much."

"It's got so bad that half the people on TV, inside the TV, they're watching TV. What are these people watching, people like me?

"He who values his life dies a dog's death."

"I have a serious illness called 'delinquency'."

"Both my parents were American, but I was born and raised in Japan. Thanks to the shitty Japanese education system, I can't speak a word of English."

"I really feel like our whole lives, no matter how low our self esteem gets, there's a part of us that thinks, 'I have a secret, special skill that no one knows about.' And, eventually, we meet someone who's like, 'You have a secret, special skill.' And you're like, 'I know! So do you!' And that's love."

"My idea of perfection is a voice on the phone."

"Well, that's how life is, Lars. Everything at once."

"As they say, 'Cherry blossoms are blessed only when they have all fallen', but...cherry blossoms only fall to return again next spring, in even greater beauty."

"Has God made you promises?"

"You're no Koreans. Koreans won't kill other Koreans!"