“The Year of Living Dangerously” quotes

(1982)
Movie The Year of Living Dangerously
Peter Weir directed this movie in 1982
Title The Year of Living Dangerously
Year 1982
Director Peter Weir
Genre Drama, Romance, War
Plot – Guy Hamilton, a young Australian journalist, is sent on a mission in Indonesia, where the current government is staggering. Guy is a courageous journalist and runs many risks in order to know the Indonesian sociopolitical reality.
All actors – Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr, Noel Ferrier, Bembol Roco, Paul Sonkkila, Ali Nur, Dominador Robridillo, Joel Agona, Mike Emperio
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  • “What then must we do? We must give with love to whoever God has placed in our path.”
    Linda Hunt - Billy Kwan
    [Tag:generosity, love]
  • “Most of us become children again when we enter the slums of Asia. And last night I watched you walk back into childhood. With all its opposite intensities: laughter and misery, the crazy and the grim, toy town and a city of fear.”
    Linda Hunt - Billy Kwan
  • “I would have given up the world for her. You wouldn't even give up one story.”

    Linda Hunt - Billy Kwan
    [Tag:love, sacrifice]
  • “- Guy Hamilton: He was supposed to stay around here and brief me.
    - Kumar: He said he was sorry. His wife was sick.
    - Guy Hamilton: Of what? Him?
    - Kumar: No, of Jakarta, boss.”

    Mel Gibson - Guy Hamilton
    Bembol Roco - Kumar
    [Tag:place, wife]
  • “If it's in focus, it's pornography. If it's out of focus, it's art.”

    Linda Hunt - Billy Kwan
  • “- Kumar: Mr. Billy Kwan was right. Westerners do not have answers any more. Water from the Moon.
    - Guy Hamilton: What does that mean, Kumar?
    - Kumar: It's an old Japanese saying. It means something one can never have.”

    Bembol Roco - Kumar
    Mel Gibson - Guy Hamilton
    [Tag:answers, proverbs]
  • “- Pete Curtis: What do you do for sex?
    - Guy Hamilton: You're worried about that?
    - Pete Curtis: Whenever I hit the front page, I get a hard-on. So what do you do? I go up to the cemetery.
    - Guy Hamilton: Are you a necrophiliac?
    - Billy Kwan: It's where the prostitutes hang out.”

    Michael Murphy - Pete Curtis
    Mel Gibson - Guy Hamilton
    Linda Hunt - Billy Kwan
    [Tag:prostitution, sex]
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