“Donnie Darko” quotes
(2001)
Title Donnie Darko
Year 2001
Director Richard Kelly
Genre Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Year 2001
Director Richard Kelly
Genre Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Plot – October 2, 1988. It is a day like any other in the disenchanted life of Donnie Darko. He has taken his medications, he has watched the presidential debate on TV and he has dinner with the family. Suddenly a terrifying incident happens: inexplicably, the engine of an airplane falls from the sky, crashing on the house of the Darkos and destroying the room of Donnie. After the accident, which nearly killed him, Donnie experiences a higher sense of what it means to be alive and also to be loved. Soon Donnie discovers his own skills of unraveling the wires that hold the universe together, simultaneously to the temptation to change time and destiny. The extraordinary smart and sleepwalker Donnie takes his anti-psychotic pills randomly, he suffers from frequent hallucinations and receives regular visits by Frank, a merciless supernatural presence that warns him: the world as Donnie knows will end in 28 days.
All actors – Jake Gyllenhaal, Holmes Osborne, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daveigh Chase, Mary McDonnell, James Duval, Arthur Taxier, Patrick Swayze, Mark Hoffman, David St. James, Tom Tangen, Jazzie Mahannah, Jolene Purdy, Stuart Stone, Gary Lundy, Alex Greenwald, Beth Grant, Jena Malone, Seth Rogen, David Moreland, Noah Wyle, Drew Barrymore, Kristina Malota, Marina Malota, Carly Naples, Tiler Peck, Patience Cleveland, Katharine Ross, Lisa K. Wyatt, Rachel Winfree, Jack Salvatore Jr., Lee Weaver, Phyllis Lyons, Ashley Tisdale, Alison Jones, Jerry Trainor, Joan Blair, Sarah Hudson, Fran Kranz, Scotty Leavenworth, , Conrad Angel Corral, Phil Hawn, Nancy Juvonen, Margaret Kontra Palmer, Dee Austin Robertson, Jack Truman
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“- Donnie Darko: If God controls time, then all time is pre-decided. Every living thing follows along a set path. And if you could see your path or channel, then you could see into the future, right? Like it's a form of time travel.
- Prof. Kenneth Monnitoff: If we were able to see our destinies manifest themselves visually, then we would be...” (continue)(continue reading)“I want you to concentrate. Failure is not an option.”
“- Elizabeth Darko: You can go suck a fuck.
- Donnie Darko: How exactly does one suck a fuck?”“I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to.”
“Some people are just born with tragedy in their blood.”
“- Dr. Lilian Thurman: The search for God is absurd?
- Donnie Darko: It is if everyone dies alone.
- Dr. Lilian Thurman: Does that scare you?
- Donnie Darko: I don't want to be alone.”“You want your sister to lose weight? Tell her to get off the couch, stop eating Twinkies and maybe go out for field hockey. You know what? No one ever knows what they want to be when they grow up. You know, it takes a little, little while to find that out.”
“- Donnie Darko: Why should I mourn for a rabbit like it was human?
- Karen Pommeroy: Are you saying that the death of one species is less tragic than another?
- Donnie Darko: The rabbit is not like us. It has no history books, no photographs, no knowledge of sorrow or regret. I just don't see the point in crying over a dead rabbit, who never...” (continue)(continue reading)“Did you stop and think that maybe infants need darkness? That maybe darkness is part of their natural environment?”
This famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, that "cellar door" is the most beautiful.
“If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories.”
“- Donnie Darko: I made a new friend.
- Dr. Lilian Thurman: Real or imaginary?
- Donnie Darko: Imaginary.”“I know I'm not the best communicator, but... whatever happens to you, be honest, tell the truth, even if they do look at you funny. They will. But what you gotta understand, is that almost all of those people are full of shit. They're all part of this great big conspiracy of bullshit. And they're scared of people like you, because those...” (continue)(continue reading)
“Fear and love are the deepest of human emotions.”
“The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue.”
“- Donnie Darko: How can you do that?
- Frank: I can do anything I want. And so can you.”“What if you could go back in time and take all those hours of pain and darkness and replace them with something better?”
“- Gretchen Ross: I just want it to be at a time when it... When it reminds me just...
- Donnie Darko: When it reminds you how beautiful the world can be?”
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