Daily Dialogue 2008
All of the Daily Dialogue posts from 2008.
May 16 — To Kill A Mockingbird:”If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot…”
May 17 — The Shawshank Redemption: “I’d like to think that the last thing that went through his…”
May 18 — The Apartment: “When you’re in love with a married man, you shouldn’t wear mascara.”
May 19 — Sideways: “Only somebody who really takes the time to understand Pinot’s potential…”
May 20 — Dr. Strangelove: “Mr. President, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed…”
May 21 — Garden State: “This necklace makes me think of this totally random memory of my…”
May 22 — Tampopo: “I’ll kill you if you make that noise once the movie starts! Understand?”
May 23 — Breaking Away: “I sure miss playing basketball. I got depressed as hell when my…”
May 24 — Knocked Up: “Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond…”
May 25 — Station Agent: “It’s funny how people see me and treat me, since I’m really just…”
May 26 — Animal House: “The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.”
May 27 — Tootsie: “Well, shame on you for letting a man do that, or any man that does that.”
May 28 — The Matrix: “You take the red pill — you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep…”
May 29 — Casablanca: “Where I’m going, you can’t follow. What I’ve got to do, you can’t be any…”
May 30 — Dirty Harry: “…you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?”
May 31 — When Harry Met Sally: “I have a theory that hieroglyphics are just an ancient comic strip…”
June 1 — Blazing Saddles: “Ah, Hailie vs. United States. Hailie: 7, United States: nothing…”
June 2 — The Godfather: “I never wanted this for you. I work my whole life — I don’t apologize…”
June 3 — Local Hero: “My parents were Hungarian immigrants. They took the name MacIntyre…”
June 4 — Juno: “You should’ve gone to China, you know, ’cause I hear they give away babies…”
June 5 — Iron Man: “They say that the best weapon is the one you never have to fire…”
June 6 — The Silence Of The Lambs: “You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your…”
June 7 — Thelma & Louise: “You shoot off a guy’s head with his pants down, believe me, Texas…”
June 8 — It Happened One Night: “Prying eyes annoy me. Behold the walls of Jericho!”
June 9 — The Jerk: “The ashtray, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that’s all I need…”
June 10 — Sense And Sensibility: “What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything…”
June 11 — Chinatown: “All right, Curly. Enough’s enough. You can’t eat the Venetian blinds…”
June 12–2001: A Space Odyssey: “I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all…”
June 13 — Planet Of The Apes: “Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!”
June 14 — City Slickers: “Women need a reason for having sex, men just need a place. “
June 15 — Wings Of Desire: “First, I’ll have a bath. Then I’ll be shaved by a Turkish barber who…”
June 16 — Say Anything: “I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything…”
June 17 — Defending Your Life: “Y’know if you really wanna make this place feel like Earth…”
June 18 — The Color of Money: “Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.”
June 19 — Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind: “I could die right now, Clem. I’m just… happy.
June 20 — Lawrence Of Arabia: “A thousand Arabs means a thousand knives, delivered anywhere…”
June 21 — My Big Fat Greek Wedding: “I had to go to Greek school, where I learned…”
June 22 — Citizen Kane: “Rosebud.”
June 23 — Annie Hall: “A relationship, I think, is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward…”
June 24 — The Big Sleep: “You know what he’ll do when he comes back? Beat my teeth out…”
June 25 — The Hunt for Red October: “Next time, Jack, write a goddamn memo.”
June 26 — Alien: “This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.”
June 27 — In & Out: “We just met at the, uh, intersexual… homosection… INTERSECTION!”
June 28 — Ocean’s Eleven: “Ten oughta do it, don’t you think? You think we need one more?”
June 29 — Day for Night: “What is this film-making? You call that a business? You’ve got no morals!”
June 30 — Toy Story: “This isn’t flying. This is falling with style!”
July 1 — Sunset Blvd.: “Funny, how gentle people get with you once you’re dead.”
July 2 — The Lost Boys: “My own brother, a goddamn, shit-sucking vampire. You wait ‘till mom…”
July 3 — Repo Man: “It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes.”
July 4 — Born on the 4th of July: “Do you remember things that made sense? Things you could…”
July 5 — Batman Begins: “They told me there was nothing out there, nothing to fear…”
July 6 — Psycho: “A boy’s best friend is his mother.”
July 7 — Malcolm X: “We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us!”
July 8 — The Great Gatsby: “In his enchanted gardens, men and girls came and went like moths…”
July 9 — Dave: “If you’ve ever seen the look on somebody’s face the day they finally get a job…”
July 10 — Charlie Wilson’s War: “You know you’ve reached rock bottom when you’re told you have…”
July 11 — Hellboy: “What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered…”
July 12 — Reversal of Fortune: “I take cases because I get pissed off. And I am pissed off here.”
July 13 — American Graffiti: “You’re the most beautiful, exciting thing I’ve ever seen in my life and…”
July 14 — Reservoir Dogs: “I don’t wanna kill anybody. But if I gotta get out that door, and you’re…”
July 15 — Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman: “He is not insane. He simply wants to die.”
July 16 — Witness: “We’re all very happy that you’re going to live, John Book. We didn’t know what…”
July 17 — Pan’s Labyrinth: “And every day, the rose wilted, unable to bequeath its gift to anyone…”
July 18 — Animal House: “Did we give up when Hitler bombed Pearl Harbor?”
July 19 — High Fidelity: “Songs at my funeral: “Many Rivers to Cross” by Jimmy Cliff…”
July 20 — Manhattan: “Why is life worth living? It’s a very good question…”
July 21–12 Angry Men: “To continue, you’ve listened to a long and complex case: murder in the…”
July 22 — Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: “We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets…”
July 23 — Pretty Woman: “When I was a little girl, my mama used to lock me in the attic when I…”
July 24 — Apocalypse Now: “I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors…”
July 25 — Kalifornia: “I’d always wanted to be a writer, but there’s a big difference between…”
July 26 — Flightplan: “…the problem is that my daughter is missing and no one can tell me where…”
July 27 — Prizzi’s Honor: “I knew she was the woman for me. She’d organized the scam in Vegas…”
July 28 — Jean de Florette: “Remember, it’s much easier to push something downhill than uphill…”
July 29 — Manon des Sources: “He’s such a bigot he might confess other people’s sins.”
July 30 — Groundhog Day: You’re kind to strangers and children, and when you stand in the snow…”
July 31 — Rocky: “Ah come on, Adrian, it’s true. I was nobody. But that don’t matter either…”
August 1 — All About Eve: “Funny business, a woman’s career — the things you drop on your way…”
August 2 — The Motorcycle Diaries: “What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier…”
August 3 — Network: “I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad…”
August 4 — Sunset Blvd.: “Well, this is where you came in, back at that pool again…”
August 5 — Shakespeare in Love: “My story starts at sea… a perilous voyage to an unknown land…”
August 6 — How Green Was My Valley: “So I can close my eyes on my valley as it is today, and it…”
August 7 — Wedding Crashers: “That we’re all one. That separateness is an illusion, and that I’m…”
August 8 — Die Hard: “You can either walk out of here… or be carried out.”
August 9 — Fight Club: “Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived…”
August 10 — Some Like It Hot: “Look how she moves! It’s like Jell-O on springs…”
August 11 — Rashomon: “I, for one, have seen hundreds of men dying like animals…”
August 12 — Syriana: “If anything happens to me or my family, an accident, an accusation…”
August 13 — The Untouchables: “You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull…”
August 14 — Magnolia: “So, so beautiful. And I cheated on her… over and over and over again.”
August 15 — Broadcast News: “What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he’s around?”
August 16 — Basic Instinct: “Number 1, I don’t remember how often I used to jerk off, but it was…”
August 17 — The Godfather: “I understand. You found paradise in America. You had a good trade…”
August 18 — The Jerk: “And that’s all I need. The ashtray, the remote control, the paddle game…”
August 19 — Big Fish: “There’s a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to…”
August 20 — Jacob’s Ladder: “So, if you’re frightened of dying and… and you’re holding on…”
August 21 — Easy Rider: “Of course, don’t ever tell anybody that they’re not free, ’cause then…”
August 22 — The Usual Suspects: “Gee, thanks, Dave. Bang-up job so far. Extortion, coercion…”
August 23 — Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: “In movies where the studio gets all paranoid about a downer…”
August 24 — High Noon: “If you’re honest you’re poor your whole life and in the end you wind up…”
August 25 — Farenheit 451: “Monday, we burn Miller; Tuesday, Tolstoy; Wednesday, Whitman…”
August 26 — Beowulf: “I am Ripper… Tearer… Slasher… Gouger. I am the Teeth in the Darkness…”
August 27 — Apollo 13: “I’m in a Banshee at night in combat conditions, so there’s no running…”
August 28 — M*A*S*H: “…we figure to crack this kid’s chest and get out to golf course before it…”
August 29 — American Beauty: “You have no idea what I’m talking about. But don’t worry…”
August 30 — Zoolander: “Just because we have chiseled abs and stunning features, it doesn’t…”
August 31 — Harry and Tonto: “You never really feel somebody’s suffering; you only feel their death.”
September 1 — On The Waterfront: “I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been…”
September 2 — Out of Sight: I know more fucked-up bank robbers than ones who know what…”
September 3 — Duck Soup: “That covers a lot of ground. Say, you cover a lot of ground yourself…”
September 4 — The Verdict: “We doubt our institutions. And we doubt the law. But today you are…”
September 5 — The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: “When the legend becomes face, print the…”
September 6 — Armageddon: “I understand that you were handicapped by a natural immaturity…”
September 7 — The Odd Couple: “He’ll kill himself just to spite me. Then his ghost will come back…”
September 8 — The Maltese Falcon: “I hope they don’t hang you, precious, by that sweet neck…”
September 9 — Donnie Darko: “I like rabbits and all. They’re cute and they’re horny.”
September 10 — Batman Begins: “People from your world have so much to lose…”
September 11 — Mad Max: “It’s that rat circus out there, I’m beginning to enjoy it…”
September 12 — Brave Little Toaster: “And then the master gave me a new bulb… and I glowed.”
September 13 — Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: “What the Black Pearl is…”
September 14 — Shampoo: “Face it, they know we’re always trying to nail ’em and they don’t like it.”
September 15 — Paths of Glory: “Gentlemen of the court, there are times that I’m ashamed to be…”
September 16 — Withnail and I: “Look at my tongue; it’s wearing a yellow sock…”
September 17 — The Seven Samurai: “What’s the use of worrying about your beard when your head’s…”
September 18 — Hope and Glory: “You’re not quite old enough, but, well…it’s the googly.”
September 19 — West Side Story: “Well now I can kill, too, because now I have hate.”
September 20 — Catch and Release: “I think catch and release fisherman are heartless weenies.”
September 21 — The Swimmer: “Pool by pool, they form a river all the way to our house.”
September 22 — Cast Away: “We live and we die by time. And we must not commit the sin of…”
September 23 — Three Comrades: “Rum, cognac, whiskey? The League of Nations, darling…”
September 24 — The Goodbye Girl: “Also, I sleep in the nude. Au buffo. Winter and summer rain or…”
September 25 — A Hard Day’s Night: “I now declare this bridge open. “
September 26 — Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: “I mean, really, what’s the point? I’m not European.”
September 27 — Clear and Present Danger: “Your word is who you are.”
September 28 — Pulp Fiction: “There’s a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17.”
September 29 — The Fisher King: “It begins with the king as a boy, having to spend the night alone…”
September 30 — Rosemary’s Baby: “What have you done to him? What have you done to his eyes…”
October 1 — Double Indemnity: “We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking…”
October 2 — Turner & Hootch: “If you’re hungry, finish the hamburgers! Eat the buns!”
October 3 — What’s Up Tiger Lily?: “…death and danger are my various breads and various butters.”
October 4 — Predator: “If it bleeds, we can kill it.”
October 5 — Diner: “We all know most marriages depend on a firm grasp of football trivia.”
October 6 — Malcolm X: “We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us!”
October 7 — The Simpsons Movie: “I don’t think about things. I mean, I respect those who do…”
October 8 — The Bishop’s Wife: “The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.”
October 9 — Bob & Ted & Carola & Alice: “First, we’ll have an orgy. Then we’ll go see Tony Bennett.”
October 10 — Brazil: “Information Transit got the wrong man. I got the right man.”
October 11 — Babel: “Save my brother. He did nothing…”
October 12 — Empire of the Sun: “I can taste it in my mouth, oil and cordite!”
October 13 — The Thing From Another World: “…as though you’re describing some form of super carrot.”
October 14 — Dear Frankie: “I was looking for a man… a stranger. No past, no present, no future…”
October 15 — American Pie: “Oh, my God. She used me. I was used. Cool!”
October 16 — The Grapes of Wrath: “…wherever there’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there…”
October17 — The Meaning of Life: “Putrid foul and gangrenous, the Lord God made them all. Amen.”
October 18 — Matilda: “I’m smart; you’re dumb. I’m big; you’re small. I’m right; you’re wrong…”
October 19 — Matewan: “You work, they don’t. That’s all you got to know about the enemy.”
October 20 — The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: “…the don’t-knows have lived with that lie so long they just…”
October 21 — Victory: “This frigging game is ruining my life.”
October 22 — Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid: “You just keep thinkin’ Butch. That’s what you’re good…”
October 23 — Big: “I met a girlfriend — a triscuit. She said, a triscuit — a biscuit…”
October 24 — The Full Monty: “Anti-wrinkle cream there may be, but anti-fat-bastard cream there is…”
October 25 — The Last Samurai: “My thanks, on behalf of those who died in the name of…”
October 26 — Traffic: “What’s Washington like? Well, it’s like Calcutta, surrounded by beggars…”
October 27 — The Breakfast Club: “My impression of life at Big Bri’s house, ‘Son?’ ‘Yeah, Dad?’”
October 28 — The African Queen: “There ain’t nothin’ so complicated as the inside of a torpedo.”
October 29 — A Few Good Men: “Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be…”
October 30 — It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World: “As far as I can see, American men have been totally…”
October 31 — Dracula: “The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life…”
November 1 — The Truth About Cats & Dogs: “You and I combined make the perfect political prisoner…”
November 2 — Eraserhead: “In Heaven, everything is fine. You’ve got your good things…”
November 3 — The History of the World Part I: “Get your columns here! Ionic, Doric, Corinthian!”
November 4 — The Constant Gardener: “…there are no murders in Africa. Only regrettable deaths…”
November 5 — In America: “We heard Manhattan before we ever saw it, a thousand strange voices…”
November 6 — The Candidate: “What happens now?”
November 7 — Jurassic Park: “Dinosaurs had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction.”
November 8 — Happy Endings: “Nothing says, ‘I love you’ like blackmail.”
November 9 — The Ninth Gate: “There have been men who have been burned alive or disemboweled…”
November 10 — Yentl: “Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?”
November 11 — Glengarry Glen Ross: “Nice guy? I don’t give a shit. Good father? Fuck you!”
November 12 — Mystic River: “We bury our sins here, Dave. We wash them clean.”
November 13 — Searching for Bobby Fischer : “Your son creates like Fischer. He sees like him, inside.”
November 14 — An American in Paris: “Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent…”
November 15 — The Terminal: “Amelia, would you like an eat to bite?”
November 16 — Boogie Nights: “You know my reputation. Thirteen inches of tough load…”
November 17 — The Gods Must Be Crazy: “He thought it was unfair of the gods to make him throw…”
November 18 — High Sierra: “I wouldn’t give you two cents for a dame without a temper.”
November 19 — House of Sand and Fog: “They have the eyes of small children who are forever looking…”
November 20 — Pieces of April: “I only have one nice April memory. Only one. She was about three…”
November 21 — Adventures in Babysitting: “…if either of you give me any grief, I swear to God I’ll kill…”
November 22–48 Hrs.: “I’m just gonna end up fuckin’ you up out here and it’s gonna be an…”
November 23 — After Hours: “What do you want from me? I’m just a word processor!”
November 24 — Love and Death: “The key is, to not think of death as an end, but as more of a very…”
November 25 — Outrageous Fortune: “I can’t talk to that guy. I went to private school.”
November 26 — Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: “You can’t run a chocolate factory with a family…”
November 27 — Miracle on 34th Street: “For the past 50 years or so I’ve been getting more and more…”
November 28 — The Ice Storm: “But only in your head, because you can’t draw a perfect square in a…”
November 29 — Forrest Gump: “I don’t know if we each have a destiny, of if we’re all just floatin’ around…”
November 30 — Dressed to Kill: “Don’t make me be a bad girl again!”
December 1 — A Christmas Story: “I want an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two Hundred-Shot…”
December 2 — The Postman Always Rings Twice: “…the way he wears it, you’d think it was a noose…”
December 3 — Adaptation: “I know how to finish the script now. It ends with Kaufman driving home…”
December 4 — Back to the Future: “Next Saturday night, we’re sending you back to the future!”
December 5 — Shadowlands: “Pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
December 6 — Twin Peaks, Season 1, Episode 2: “I’ve got good news. That gum you like is going to…”
December 7 — Twilight: “The hunt is his obsession. He’s never gonna stop.”
December 8 — Alice in Wonderland: “…what it is it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would.”
December 9 — When a Man Loves a Woman: “It’s horrifying how much you can hate yourself for being…”
December 10–28 Days Later: “No, see this is a really shit idea. You know why? Because it’s really…”
December 11 — A Perfect World: “Phillip, you have a goddamned red, white and blue American right…”
December 12 — Them: “We haven’t seen the end of them. We’ve only had a close view of the beginning…”
December 13 — Sex, Lies and Videotape: “I think that sex is overrated. I think that people place far too…”
December 14 — The Illustrated Man: “…don’t you look at those illustrations too long, because they’ll…”
December 15 — Whale Rider: “A long time ago, my ancestor Paikea came to this place on the back of a…”
December 16 — The Unbearable Lightness of Being: “I’ve met another man. He’s the best man I’ve ever…”
December 17 — Scrooge: “Well, then, I’ll just swallow this and be tortured by a legion of hobgoblins…”
December 18 — P’tang, Yang, Kipperbang: “Please God. Today or tomorrow — or early next week…”
December 19 — The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean: “Ordinarily, I’d take you in my court and try you…”
December 20 — My Left Foot: “Con-gra-tu-la-tions to you and Peter. I’m glad you taught me to speak…”
December 21 — Bonnie and Clyde: “You’ve heard the story of Jesse James / Of how he lived and died…”
December 22 — Training Day: “You don’t like narcotics, get the fuck out of my car…”
December 23 — The Player: “I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer…”
December 24 — Sullivan’s Travels: “There’s a lot to be said for making people laugh…”
December 25 — The Polar Express: “On Christmas Eve many years ago I laid quietly in my bed…”
December 26 — The 400 Blows: “Sometimes I’d tell them the truth and they still wouldn’t believe me…”
December 27 — Ali: “You my enemy, not no Chinese, no Vietcong, no Japanese…”
December 28 — Spellbound: “Women make the best psychoanalysts until they fall in love…”
December 29 — Poltergeist: They’re here.”
December 30 — Tron: “On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy.”
December 31 — August Rush: “Listen. Can you hear it? The music. I can hear it everywhere…”