Perception quotes

“Every day I'm intrigued and sometimes outraged by things that no one talks about.”
Catherine Hardwicke

“Digital makes things feel more real.”
Michael Mann

“The film becomes like a Trojan Horse. You push it into the village as one thing and it comes out another thing.”
James McTeigue

“Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.”
Wes Anderson

“If there was a car crash ten blocks away, that window washer up there could probably see it. Now, that doesn't mean he's God, or even smarter than we are. But from where he's sitting, he can see a little further down the road.”
Alan Bates - Alexander Leek

“We like to make ourselves seem so much more important than the people that come in here to buy a paper, or, God forbid... cigarettes. We look down on them as if we're so advanced. Well, if we're so fucking advanced, what are we doing working here?”
Jeff Anderson - Randal Graves

“What am I looking at here? Why are you hanging from the earth by your feet like bats?”

Josh Gad - Olaf

“Maybe we're the ones that need to prove ourselves to him.”

Georgie Henley - Lucy Pevensie

“There are those, of course, who do not share my perceptions, it's true. When I say that all my women are dazzling beauties, they object. The nose of this one is too large; the hips of another, they are too wide; perhaps the breasts of a third, they are too small. But I see these women for how they truly are... glorious, radiant, spectacular, and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Johnny Depp - Don Juan DeMarco

“- Sallow: Can't pass an old man?
- Kidda: I didn't see him.
- Sallow: You gotta know where everybody is, all of us!
- Kidda: What if I can't?
- Sallow: They'll crush your skull!”

Rutger Hauer - Sallow
Joan Chen - Kidda

“- Amanda: Am I late?
- Jerry Falk: Not if we go by Rocky Mountain time.”
Christina Ricci - Amanda
Jason Biggs - Jerry Falk

“What's that? Oh, a naked lady. But wait! A golden backscratcher!”
Ed E. Carroll - The Thief

“- Cole Sear: I don't tell her things.
- Malcolm Crowe: Why not?
- Cole Sear: Because she doesn't look at me like everybody else, and I don't want her to. I don't want her to know.
- Malcolm Crowe: Know what?
- Cole Sear: That I'm a freak.”

Haley Joel Osment - Cole Sear
Bruce Willis - Dr. Malcolm Crowe

“- Margaret Schlegel: I deny it's madness.
- Henry Wilcox: But you said yourself...
- Margaret Schlegel: It's madness when I say it, but not when you say it.”

Emma Thompson - Margaret Schlegel
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Henry Wilcox

“Here's the story: the people are voting, there's an election, and the democratic process is working. The only sour note? The people won't end up with the candidate that they voted for to be President. We can still celebrate the process. The democracy which we hold so dear will have worked. Everybody's gonna be satisfied...”
Jeff Goldblum - Alan Stewart

“Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.”
Edward Norton - Father Brian Finn

“Science. Perception. Reality. Doubt. Reasonable doubt.”
Tony Shalhoub - Freddy Riedenschneider

“- Dr. Grant: Erik, I have to tell you, I'm astonished that you've lasted eight weeks on this island.
- Erik: ...Is that all it's been?”
Sam Neill - Dr. Alan Grant
Trevor Morgan - Eric Kirby

“- Father: Every now and then, a person comes along, has a different view of the world than does the usual person. It doesn't make them crazy. I mean... an acute perception, man... that doesn't, that doesn't make you crazy.
- Rusty James: Could you talk normal?
- Father: However sometimes... it can drive you crazy, acute perception.”
Dennis Hopper - Father
Matt Dillon - Rusty James

“- Chon Wang: The painting! It's looking at me!
- Roy O'Bannon: It looks like it's looking at me too. That's great.”
Jackie Chan - Chon Wang
Owen Wilson - Roy O'Bannon

“Wooo. It's like a drug. Wearing these glasses gets you high, but you come down hard.”

Roddy Piper - Nada

“- Betty: It's been awhile since we had a little cuddle.
- Yellowbeard: I raped ya, if that's what you mean.
- Betty: Okay. It was half-cuddle, half-rape.”
Madeline Kahn - Betty
Graham Arthur Chapman - Yellowbeard

“There is nothing real outside our perception of reality.”
Jack Creley - Brian O'Blivion

“I looked across the park, and in the distance I saw leaves blowing in the wind, bunch of children running, a red ball rolling, a flock of starlings taking off. I covered my right eye: no leaves. Blur of children, blotch of red, no birds. Covered my left: ah! Ecstacy. Cover my right: despair. Ecstacy. Despair. And I realized at that moment that I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Spalding Gray - Himself

“- Matt: I feel like an idiot.
- Casey: You look like an idiot.
- Matt: I am an idiot.”
Chris O'Donnell - Matt Leland
Drew Barrymore - Casey Roberts