⋄ ⌠ At Eternity's Gate, 2018. ⌡

• There's a lot of destruction and failure at the door of a successful picture. I find joy in sorrow. And sorrow is greater than laughter.

» You know, an angel is not far from those who are sad, and illness can sometimes heal us.

• Vincent Van Gogh : Paintings have to be done in one clear gesture.
• Paul Gauguin : Think about the surface that you're painting on and how the paint will sit on it. You're changing things so fast, you can't even see what you've done.

» Vincent Van Gogh : Paintings have to be painted fast.

⋄ ⌠ Shame, 2005. ⌡

• Sissy Sullivan : I'm trying, I'm trying to help you.
• Brandon Sullivan : How are you helping me, huh? How are you helping me? How are you helping me? Huh? Look at me. You come in here and you're a weight on me. Do you understand me? You're a burden. You're just dragging me down. How are you helping me? You can't even clean up after yourself. Stop playing the victim.

» Sissy Sullivan : I'm not playing the victim. If I left, I would never hear from you again. Don't you think that's sad? Don't you think that's sad? You're my brother.

⋄ ⌠ Gattaca, 1997. ⌡

• It's funny, you work so hard, you do everything you can to get away from a place, and when you finally get your chance to leave,

» you find a reason to stay.

• For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star.

» Maybe I'm not leaving... Maybe I'm going home.

⋄ ⌠ Interstellar, 2014. ⌡

• Cooper: We've always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible. And we count these moments. These moments when we dare to aim higher, to break barriers, to reach for the stars, to make the unknown known. We count these moments as our proudest achievements. But we lost all that. Or perhaps we've just forgotten that we are still pioneers. And we've barely begun.

» And that our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, because our destiny lies above us.

• Cooper: We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.

⋄ ⌠ Brokeback Mountain, 2005. ⌡

• Jack Twist : Jack Twist.
• Ennis Del Mar : Ennis.
• Jack Twist : Your folks just stop at Ennis?
• Ennis Del Mar : Del Mar.

» Jack Twist : Nice to know you, Ennis del Mar.

• The shirt seemed heavy until he saw there was another shirt inside it, the sleeves carefully worked down inside Jack’s sleeves. It was his own plaid shirt, lost, he’d thought, long ago in some damn laundry, his dirty shirt, the pocket ripped, buttons missing, stolen by Jack and hidden here inside Jack’s own shirt,

» the pair like two skins, one inside the other, two in one.

• He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.