My Favorite Films of 2013

"Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through."

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Written by Hayao Miyazaki
Music by Joe Hisaishi
Cinematography by Atsushi Okui
Editing by Takeshi Seyama

"The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week."

Directed by Martin Scorsese
Written by Terence Winter
Music by
Cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto Thelma Schoonmaker
Editing by Thelma Schoonmaker

"I'm tired. I thought I just needed a night's sleep but it's more than that."

Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
Written by Joel and Ethan Coen
Music by
Cinematography by Bruno Delbonnel
Editing by Joel and Ethan Coen

"Sometimes I think I have felt everything I'm ever gonna feel. And from here on out, I'm not gonna feel anything new. Just lesser versions of what I've already felt."

Directed by Spike Jonze
Written by Spike Jonze
Music by Arcade Fire
Cinematography by Hoyte Van Hoytema
Editing by Jeff Buchanan and Eric Zumbrunnen

"Pray for the best, but prepare for the worst."

Directed by Denis Villeneuve
Written by Aaron Guzikowski
Music by Jóhann Jóhannsson
Cinematography by Roger Deakins
Editing by Joel Cox and Gary Roach

"Every great age presents a choice: to go forward, or stay back. I prefer to stay back, in the happiest times of my life."

Directed by Kar-Wai Wong
Written by Kar-Wai Wong, Jingzhi Zou and Haofeng Xu
Music by Stefano Lentini, Nathaniel Méchaly and Shigeru Umebayashi
Cinematography by Philippe Le Sourd
Editing by William Chang, Benjamin Courtines and Hung Poon

"My friend, you suffer from the misplaced optimism of the doomed."

Directed by Bong Joon Ho
Written by Bong Joon Ho and Kelly Masterson
Music by Marco Beltrami
Cinematography by Hong Kyung-pyo
Editing by Steve M. Choe

"Have a drink with your old man. Be somebody!"

Directed by Alexander Payne
Written by Bob Nelson
Music by Mark Orton
Cinematography by Phedon Papamichael
Editing by Kevin Tent

"He used to say, sometimes you need to do something bad to stop you from doing something worse."

Directed by Park Chan-wook
Written by Wentworth Miller
Music by Clint Mansell
Cinematography by Chung-hoon Chung
Editing by Nicolas De Toth

"Hey it is our basic human right to be fuck ups. This civilization was founded on fuck ups and you know what? That makes me proud!"

Directed by Edgar Wright
Written by Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg
Music by Steven Price
Cinematography by Bill Pope
Editing by Paul Machliss

"I'm good, I'm good, I'm gonna be good."

Directed by Ryan Coogler
Written by Ryan Coogler
Music by Ludwig Göransson
Cinematography by Rachel Morrison
Editing by Claudia Castello and Michael P. Shawver

"Imagine everything you ever wanted shows up one day and calls itself your life. And then just when you start to believe in it - gone. And suddenly it gets very hard to imagine a future. That's depression, right?"

Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Written by Scott Z. Burns
Music by Thomas Newman
Cinematography by Steven Soderbergh
Editing by Steven Soderbergh

"You know what's awful? Just 'cause my dad loved your mom... we all end up dead."

Directed by Jeremy Saulnier
Written by Jeremy Saulnier
Music by Brooke Blair and Will Blair
Cinematography by Jeremy Saulnier
Editing by Julia Bloch

"How can you have lived for so long and still not get it? This self obsession is a waste of living, It could be spent surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing. You have been pretty lucky in love though, if I may say so."

Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Written by Jim Jarmusch
Music by Jozef van Wissem
Cinematography by Yorick Le Saux
Editing by Affonso Gonçalves

"Look at me... I'm the captain now."

Directed by Paul Greengrass
Written by Billy Ray
Music by Henry Jackman
Cinematography by Barry Ackroyd
Editing by Christopher Rouse

"I have all these things that I want to say to her, like... Like how I can tell she's a lonely person, even if other people can't. Cause I know what it feels like to be lost and lonely and invisible."

Directed by Richard Ayoade
Written by Richard Ayoade and Avi Korine
Music by Andrew Hewitt
Cinematography by Erik Wilson
Editing by Chris Dickens and Nick Fenton

"I don't want to survive. I want to live."

Directed by Steve McQueen
Written by John Ridley
Music by Hans Zimmer
Cinematography by Sean Bobbitt
Editing by Joe Walker

"Its funny isn't it? All the pieces of paper designed to help you find him have been destroyed, but guess what, the one piece of paper designed to stop you finding him has been lovingly preserved. God and his infinite wisdom decided to spare that from the flames."

Directed by Stephen Frears
Written by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
Music by Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography by Robbie Ryan
Editing by Valerio Bonelli

"You know, I wasn't trying to win you over. I was telling you to fuck off."

Directed by John Carney
Written by John Carney
Music by Gregg Alexander
Cinematography by Yaron Orbach
Editing by Andrew Marcus

"You got a problem with me?"
"I got a problem with everybody."

Directed by Scott Cooper
Written by Scott Cooper and Brad Ingelsby
Music by Dickon Hinchliffe
Cinematography by Masanobu Takayanagi
Editing by David Rosenbloom

"If we have souls, they are made of the love we share... undimmed by time and bound by death."

Directed by Joseph Kosinski
Written by Joseph Kosinski, Karl Gajdusek and Michael Arndt
Music by Anthony Gonzalez, Joseph Trapanese and M83
Cinematography by Claudio Miranda
Editing by Richard Francis-Bruce

"Don't eyeball me! I've seen your mother driving up and down these streets looking at me! I'll be your stepfather in about a week!"

Directed by Michael Bay
Written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely
Music by Steve Jablonsky
Cinematography by Ben Seresin
Editing by Tom Muldoon and Joel Negron

"I was running, and then I reached the cliff, and all I know is I wanted to either fly or kill myself."

Directed by David Gordon Green
Written by David Gordon Green
Music by Explosions in the Sky and David Wingo
Cinematography by Tim Orr
Editing by Colin Patton

"Dying wouldn't be so bad right now. I just don't want to become the devil's bitch."

Directed by Fede Alvarez
Written by Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues
Music by Roque Baños
Cinematography by Aaron Morton
Editing by Bryan Shaw

"So, what do you like about being up here?"
"The silence."

Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Written by Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón
Music by Steven Price
Cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki
Editing by Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger