Quotes About Requiem For A Dream

#1. I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

Harold Prince

#2. The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

John Thorn

#3. Superiors got all the good things in life. Commoners got what was left. Slaves got a beating if they complained.

Yuval Noah Harari

#4. Modern art has to be what is called 'intense.' it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong.

G.K. Chesterton

#5. In crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy so many lives in the U.S., but infect the rest of the world with its obsession with getting more, ignoring the deadly effect that has on the planet.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#7. I don't think [Requiem for a Dream] is for children, but I think if you went home and looked at the video games that your kids are playing, you'd be much more shocked.

Jared Leto

#8. Freaking men. It didn't matter what the problem was, they saw only three solutions to it: food, sex, war.

Darynda Jones

#9. Fairy tales weren't made of common sense and logic - they were leaps of faith.

Heather Long

#10. We just have to have faith. The good Lord wouldn't give us more than we could bear.

Jim Butcher

#11. I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It's not a job, it's a passion. When you become good at it, it's a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

Gordon Ramsay

#12. There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

David Horowitz

#13. Hand-barrow - a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#14. Orang Indonesia memang tak pernah siap, We started fighting first and thinking later

Julius Tahija

#15. Let's always do good deeds everyday.

Seicho Taniguchi

#16. Yeah, 'Requiem for a Dream' - it'll put you off a lot of things, that film, that's for sure.

Douglas Booth

#17. I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#18. What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.

Stanley Elkin

#19. It is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#20. There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.

Darren Aronofsky