Are you happy? Do you have love? What will you do when you get older? Will you try to change the world like I did? We failed, but maybe you will not. Maybe you will be the one who puts the world right. • One Battle After Another • 2025 • Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson • Cinematography: Michael Bauman
We must work. We must make money. But more than that Bella, we must experience everything. Not just the good, but degradation, horror, sadness. This makes us whole Bella, makes us people of substance. Not flighty, untouched children. Then we can know the world. And when we know the world, the world is ours.- Poor Things (2023), Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Ever since I was a child, people said my family was cursed. Mom tried to protect us with God. Pop tried to protect us with wrestling. He said if we were the toughest, the strongest, nothing could ever hurt us. I believed him. We all did.- The Iron Claw (2023) Dir. Sean Durkin
I tried to save him. I thought that if I just loved him, that he wouldn’t need anyone else. I told him he didn’t need God, he didn’t need anyone but me.- The Whale (2022) Dir. Darren Aronofsky
We have the privilege of living. We have the privilege of believing. So believe and live. With everybody and for everybody. Live for those who will come, for whom everything is being done. Believe and you'll get filled with a great invincible strength. Believe.- Farewell / 1983 / Dir. Elem Klimov.
They don’t know this feeling. Only me. Only I do. How lucky. Every day of every week of every month, I think...How lucky. Because that feeling... - Of an Age (2023) // Dir. Goran Stolevski
