octagonwrong’s most recent Quotables

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Nolan’s magnum opus is the first major blockbuster in over a decade that’s demanded intense viewer concentration, raised thoughtful and complex ideas, and wrapped everything all in a breathlessly exciting action film.

The Social Network takes familiar ideas about trust, friendship, endeavour, ambition, betrayal and greed into fascinating new areas of experience. It's as riveting, lucid and open-minded a film as Rashomon.

Lisa Cholodenko's sparkling picture is an easygoing comedy of emotional difficulty, a witty portrait of postmodern family life in which script, casting, direction and location all just float together without any apparent effort at all.

[To himself] Hey there, Aron! Is it true that you didn't tell anyone where you were going?

It's hard enough to open your heart in this world. Don't make it harder.

Single Dadness is not as easy as it looks... I barely have time to get loaded anymore

This is a superb film – original and enthralling – in which the bleakness is slivered with a welcome seam of hope.

I'd be lost without the weight of you two on my back. I ain't going anywhere.

Fantastically deranged at all times, Darren Aronofsky's ballet psycho-melodrama is a glittering, crackling, outrageously pickable scab of a film.

It was difficult to tell who enjoyed Toy Story 3 more when I saw it last night: the adults or the children.

Although the film involves a man overcoming a serious disability, it is neither triumphalist nor sentimental. Its themes are courage (where it comes from, how it is used), responsibility, and the necessity to place duty above personal pleasure or contentment – the subjects, in fact, of such enduringly popular movies as Casablanca and High Noon.

Mattie Ross: But we promised to bury the poor soul inside!
Rooster Cogburn: Ground's too hard. Them men wanted a decent burial, they should have got themselves killed in summer.

That guy did not just get off the fuckin' couch. If he did, I'm gonna get a couch like that.

The Fighter looks like a boxing film and it sounds like a boxing film, but it’s at least as much about dependency as it is about boxing. Drug dependency, obviously: and Bale’s in your face, jittery, scattery portrait of a crackhead is quite something.

I can only speak from experience but he [Theo Walcott] was one of the most dangerous players I have ever played against...Barcelona players are not scared easily but I can tell you that when we played Arsenal last season he truly worried us.

You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

I have SARS and I lick all my money.

Let's just hope we accidentally build god.

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