“Everybody obviously wants deeply to laugh at anything today. It's like the war years in that people wants escapism, big escapism. What the devil, it's a nervous world we live in. But it's the affluent society too and we're all on a spending spree.”
Burt Lancaster

“- Officer Richard Lymangood: All those people. What do you suppose they're all doing down there?
- Officer Frank Murphy: Well, according to the latest statistics, about 1 million, 775 thousand of them are... getting it on!
- Officer Richard Lymangood: That many, eh!
- Officer Frank Murphy: The rest are waiting for 'Laverne and Shirley'!”

Daniel Stern - Officer Richard Lymangood
Roy Scheider - Officer Frank Murphy

“Do you think someday people will get Tibet on their movie screens and wonder what happened to us?”
Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk - Dalai Lama, 14 Years Old

“I want to shock people into awareness. I don't believe there's any virtue in understatement.”
Ken Russell

“If people are too much the same, they become mundane and boring.”
Tom Tykwer