Cinema That Inspires: The Transcript

  • “My friends, I address you all tonight as you truly are; wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, magicians... Come and dream with me.” (Hugo)
    • “We are the dreamers of dreams.” (Willy Wonka, 1971)
    • “I dream for a living.” - Steven Spielberg
    • “If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from...you look around. This is where they're made.” (Hugo)
    • “You create the world of the dream.” (Inception) 
    • “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger darling.” (Inception)
    • "If you can dream it, you can do it" - Walt Disney
    • “You got a dream... You gotta protect it.” (The Pursuit of Happyness)
    • “First there was a dream, now there is reality.” (Moonraker - Hugo Drax)
  • “We are powerful beyond measure. We were all meant to shine as children do. It is not just in some; it is in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” (Coach Carter)
    • “Remember, with great power comes great responsibility.” (Spiderman)
    • “I have to wonder if you people realize the level of responsibility you carry.  From my way of thinking, motion pictures are potentially the most influential form of communication ever invented.  And there’s no control over it.  Your message reaches everyone, everywhere.” (Chaplin)
    • “Even now my voice is reaching out to millions throughout the world.” (The Great Dictator)
    • “You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power, let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.” (The Great Dictator)
    • “Too few characters out there, flying around like that, saving old girls like me. And Lord knows, kids like Henry need a hero. Courageous, self-sacrificing people. Setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And years later, they'll tell how they stood in the rain for hours just to get a glimpse of the one who taught them how to hold on a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams.” (Spiderman 2)
  • “What we do in life echoes in eternity.” (Gladiator)
    • "It's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you." (Batman Begins)
    • “When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant...? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self?” (Gladiator)
    • “You will give the people of Earth an ideal to strive towards.” (Man of Steel)
    • “If you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop you, then you become something else entirely. Which is? Legend Mr. Wayne.” (Batman Begins)
    • “Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” – Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln footage)
  • “It’s not about the money. It’s about sending a message.” (The Dark Knight)
    • “Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.” (V for Vendetta)​
  • “The key to a great story is not who, or what, or when, but why.” (Tomorrow Never Dies)
    • "I think one of the greatest circles for moral good is storytelling where you are invited to take the perspective of another and see the world as they do." - Paul Bloom 
      • (With Crash footage)
    • "A compelling narrative, offering a storyteller's moral imagination vigorously at work, can enable any of us to learn by example, to take to heart what is, really, a gift of grace." - James G. Keenan
  • “It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.... That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.” (LOTR: Two Towers)
    • “Ernest Hemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.” (Se7en)
    • “Let me tell you something that you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows.” (Rocky Balboa)
    • "I mean the world is hard enough as it is guys. Can't someone say hey let's be positive. Let's have a good ending to the story." (Silver Lining Playbook)
    • “The night is darkest just before the dawn, and I promise you, the dawn is coming.” (The Dark Knight)
  • “Some men just want to watch the world burn.” (The Dark Knight)
    • Montage of destruction (2012)
    • “The horror... the horror...” (Apocalypse Now)
    • “Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?” (Gladiator)
    • “If you want entertainment you get a couple of hookers and an eight ball. Film is too powerful a medium to be just that. There’s got to be some kind of human sharing. There’s got to be some kind of journey and risk taking so that it’s exciting for not only the audience, but for the participants so that there is a growth involved in it.” - Sean Penn (Inside the Actors Studio)
    • “I know the tricks and I could teach them to you so that even when you're asleep your defense is never down.” (Inception)
    • “When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.” (J. Edgar)
      • “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” -Edmund Burke
    • “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” (Sucker Punch)
    • O“I think positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time.” (Inception)
    • “This city just showed you that it's full of people ready to believe in good.” (The Dark Knight)
  • “You had faith in something bigger than that. You had plain, decent, everyday, common rightness, and this country could use some of that. Yeah, so could the whole cockeyed world, a lot of it.” (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
    • “Get up there with that lady that's up on top of this Capitol dome, that lady that stands for liberty. Take a look at this country through her eyes if you really want to see something. And you won't just see scenery; you'll see the whole parade of what Man's carved out for himself, after centuries of fighting. Fighting for something better than just jungle law, fighting so's he can stand on his own two feet, free and decent, like he was created, no matter what his race, color, or creed. That's what you'd see. There's no place out there for graft, or greed, or lies, or compromise with human liberties. (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) 
    • Great principles don't get lost once they come to light. They're right here; you just have to see them again!” (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
    • “And he fought for them once, for the only reason any man ever fights for them; because of just one plain simple rule: 'Love thy neighbor.” (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)​
  • “Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will. Boys ought to grow up remembering that.” (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
    • “Words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth.” (V for Vendetta)
    • “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.” (HP: DH2)
      • “You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. ‘Have you found joy in your life?’ ‘Has your life brought joy to others?” (The Bucket List)
  • “Sixty percent of all human communication is nonverbal, body language; thirty percent is your tone. So that means that ninety percent of what you're saying ain't coming out of your mouth.” (Hitch)
  • “Now watch closely, everyone.” (Princess Mononoke)
    • Life of Pi trailer
    • “Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away.” (Hitch)
    • “I need to believe that something extraordinary is possible.” (A Beautiful Mind)
    • “You remember, it's the chance to build cathedrals, entire cities, things that never existed.” (Inception)
  • “Every experience feeds ideas.” - David Lynch (Great Directors)
    • “Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed - fully understood - that sticks; right in there somewhere.” (Inception)
    • O“An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.” (Inception)
    • “A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.” (Inception - Trailer)
    • “An idea can still change the world. I've witnessed first hand the power of ideas.” (V for Vendetta)
    • “Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy. And ideas are bulletproof.” (V for Vendetta)
  • “It is the quality of ones convictions that determines success, not the number of followers.” (HP: DH2)
    • “But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me.” (V for Vendetta)
    • “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead