Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life

- I refuse to be tied down to anyone. - Good. Good for you. - You think so? - Are you kidding? To have that kind of courage? Especially someone from your generation. - Really? - Yeah, what they don’t tell us is that marriage is an anachronistic institution created for the sole convenience of the father who needs to pass off his daughters over to the care of another man, like, “Here, here, she eats too much. Take her off my hands”. But now that we’ve gotten our independence, that we earn our own livings, there’s no purpose in being someone’s wife. Why can’t we love as many people as we want in a lifetime? Monogamy is really a very unnatural state that’s been forced on us for centuries by screwed-up religious leaders who are completely out of touch with their own sexuality. You know what I mean? - Have you been talking to your fiance about any of this?

You have a freak flag. You just don't fly it.

- It's a long story, something about the violation of expectations and a crushing loss of faith, and love, and life, and art. - So it's a girl? - Yes. - I've had a little bit of girl trouble myself lately. But it is better to have loved and lost, am I right? - She was a unique constellation of attributes; she was my Halley's comet. But the universe is designed to break your heart, right? - A philosopher as well as an artist, yes, it is we who suffer most. - Yes, with the possible exception of the victims of violent crime

Life goes on. Maybe there won't be marriage... maybe there won't be sex... but, by God, there'll be dancing.

- Why does my character have to be a dwarf? - He doesn't have to be. - Then why is he? Is that the only way you can make this a dream, to put a dwarf in it? - No, Tito, I... - Have you ever had a dream with a dwarf in it? Do you know anyone who's had a dream with a dwarf in it? No! I don't even have dreams with dwarves in them. The only place I've seen dwarves in dreams is in stupid movies like this!

- Marriage is hard. - That's one thing about mom and dad. You gotta tip your hat to anybody who can stay married that long. - Karen, he killed himself.

He really wants us to think what he's doing is art.

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

I don't walk through this world with fear in my heart.

What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain. 

I... I Need to know who he is. I... I need to stand there, I need to look him in the eye and I need to know that it's him.