GLORIA THERESE

“Everything that torments me, that I long for, that makes me indignant, or sick, or suffocates me, everything that gives me a feeling of light or warmth, and by which I live, and everything that destroys me—it's all there in your film,” a female worker from Novosibirsk to Tarkovsky in regards to his film The Mirror

"This book traces what I shall call the documentary impulse. Here I mean the passion to record, with fidelity, the moments we experience and wish to preserve, the things we witness and might want to reform; or simply the people, places or things we find remarkable." —Stuart Franklin

“…and when you can do all that, you can find a different world. A world so peaceful, so beautiful, endless — and desolate. With one breath, I’m part of it.” — Johanna, Under the Ice

“There are two ways through life. The way of Nature, and the way of Grace. Mother. Father. Always you wrestle inside me.” — Terrence Malick

“I don’t just want to make people laugh. I want to make them see.” — A.A. Milne, Goodbye Christopher Robin

The Dawn of Eve — a manifesto akin to a female version of Lord of the Flies

“One can not let oneself live in fear of that. He can kick me but I will not let him rob me of my enjoyment of this egg, that coffee, or this day. I will not let fear take my life from me.” — Leo Voronsky, The Great

“Growing older does not seem to make you more certain, Nella thinks. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt.” ― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“I think if there’s a sort of sadness for people under forty-five, it has something to do with pleasure, and achievement, and entertainment, like a sort of emptiness at the heart of what they thought was going on.” — David Foster Wallace

“I’d like to be a queen in people’s hearts, but I don’t see myself being queen of this country.” — Princess Diana

“Here, there is only one tense. There is no future. The past and present are the same thing.” — Diana, Spencer

“We Sherpa people have a great respect for that mountain. She’s the mother God of the Earth. Over here, we climb the mountain, but it’s a holy place. Western people approach it as a physical challenge. To see how close you can get to death.” — Phurba Tashi

“To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.” — Walter Mitty

“Listening to the two of them, she had felt something unpleasant and familiar: the sense that chess was a thing between men, and she was an outsider. She hated the feeling.” — Walter Tevis

“Do all lovers feel like they’re inventing something?” — Céline Sciamma

“There is good, and there is evil. And they’re both mixed.” — Polly Gray

“It is said that Bushmen have two types of hungry people. Little Hunger is someone who is physically hungry, and Great Hunger is someone who is hungry for survival. Why do we live, what is the significance of living? People who are always looking for these answers. This kind of person is really hungry, and they call them Great Hunger.” — Hai Mi, Burning

“You lack the right feet, turnout, achilles tendons, and leg and torso length. You simply have the wrong body for ballet. You could be a professional dancer in Vegas. And at 13, you are already far too old to be considered.” — excerpt from one of Misty Copeland’s rejection letters from a notorious ballet academy

A montage to Fight Club and Kawaii girl gangs, directed by Jodeb, featuring cast recruited from the Lookbook street style community

“The Hymn of a Pearl tells the tale of a prince who was sent west to Egypt to find a pearl but when he arrived the people of Egypt poured him a cup and he went into a deep sleep forgetting he was the son of the King, forgetting about the pearl. Malick uses this story as a metaphor of losing one’s self, of one’s sense of meaning, of purpose.” — Like Stories of Old

“She practices at home, avoids going out for drinks after training, and is endlessly chastised by her dance teacher, all to no avail. This changes when she has a collision with joy, and learns how to let go and express her pleasure freely.” — Andrew Cumming

“Love is the strongest thing in the world.” — Rosie

“I think you’ll find that metal is the strongest thing in the world. Followed closely by dynamite, and then muscles.” — Jojo

“I believe that the characters we read about on the page end up being more real than the men who stand beside us.” — Jackie

"There is no greater joy than to have endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun." — Chris McCandles

“Love isn’t something we invented. Maybe it’s some evidence, some artifact, of a higher dimension that we can’t consciously perceive. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can’t understand it yet.” — Brand, Interstellar

“No. No, you don't. You don't deserve happiness. You deserve more than that. You deserve magic.” — Tolkien

“There’s no such thing as truth … Everyone has their own truth.” — Tonya Harding, I Tonya

“'Cause darling we're all a little splintered and battered. But the light is on, what you waiting for?” — Joy Williams

“I think it’s how you've put yourself on trial. It's judge and jury. If it works, determinism precludes free will, and you're absolved, you did no wrong. But if it doesn't work, you had choices, and you're guilty.” — Katie, Devs

"Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance." — Coco Chanel

“Remember — the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself: life’s cruelest irony.” — Douglas Coupland

“It’s a bit like a Dylan song: they have held the world in their hands and let it slip through their fingers.” - Cinephilia Beyond

“Wyeth once said about his art: “It’s a moment that I’m after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.” — Symbol Reader

“I’m not really someone who knows exactly how my film is going to look ahead of time. I just have an idea of the tone that I think it will feel like. I have to constantly be open to how it might change, and not stick to one way of thinking about the story.” — Hannah Peterson

"In my maturity, I've come to the happy, evolutionary opinion that I'm unusual, and I embrace it." — Anne Shirley Cuthbert, Anne with an E

“Greg made me get a job working for f*ckin’ Postmates. And sometimes I lose money on this job. Cause you know, I go to buy someone a smoothie, and I’m like — obviously I’m gonna get a smoothie.” — Dylan Maxwell, American Vandal

“Your bones aren't made of glass, you can take life's knocks. If you let this chance pass, eventually, your heart will become as dry and brittle as my skeleton. So, go get him, for Pete's sake!” — Raymond Dufayel, Amelie

“I’ve already been judged, sir. Whatever you may think of me, it’s all the same.” — Grace Marks, Alias Grace

“Travel through four decades of boundary-breaking Iranian cinema in this retrospective of the master filmmaker's poetic, humanist works.” — Criterion Collection

“The dance of the camera and the mechanics all have to be in sync with what the actors are doing. When you achieve that, it is very beautiful — and exhilarating. I wanted people to understand how difficult it was for these men. And the nature of that is behind everything.” — Sam Mendes

“I think you only want passion until you’ve been burned. Then power starts looking really good.” — Georgia, Ginny & Georgia

“That's how fast life changes, Addy. In the blink of an eye. That's what you kids don't know. It's what you don't even think about.” — Faith, Dare Me

“You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothin' free, except the grace of God.” — Mattie, True Grit

“And every time you try to vowel load me with your adieus and audios, I’m coming back at you with cynic, proxy, knoll. Bitch, please — I have no vowel words too.”

“I'm teaching a class on the intersection of sociopathy and fame. People like Andy Warhol, Jim Morrison. Their celebrity becomes the only thing they need to sustain their ego.” — Wendy Carr, Mindhunter

“How can I give this pain to someone else? Someone who’s already suffered? And I know she would not want that, at all. That is not why my daughter came into this world for the time that she did.” — Martha, Pieces of a Woman