wonderful lines from the cinema

"You can't see the borders. They're man-made. Nature could care less."
Le Grand Illusion, Jean Renoir, dir. (1939)

"I can't afford to hate people. I haven't got that kind of time."
Ikiru, Akira Kurosawa, dir. (1952)

“It’s difficult to start a revolution, even more difficult to sustain one, and still more difficult to win one.”
The Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo, dir. (1966)

"Every man is an abyss. You get dizzy looking in."
Woyzeck, Werner Herzog, dir. (1976)

"Writing is analgesic. I think it's all that matters to me. I dread emerging from it each day."
Janet Frame, from An Angel at My Table, Jane Campion, dir. (1989)

"I saw it, but I didn't believe it. I didn't believe it, what I saw. Are we gonna live together? Together are we gonna live?"
Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee, dir. (1989)

“If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.”
Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, dir. (1994)