Red Lights

„There are two kinds of people out there with a special gift. The ones who really think they have some kind of power. And the other guys, who think we can’t figure them out. They’re both wrong.”

„We called Ptolemy insane, we spat in the face of Galileo, we burned Giordano Bruno… What did we need? What do we need in order to learn? What makes us be what we are? What finally makes us come to accept? What makes us believe?”

„We dream 27 times a night. An intricate neurological protection mechanism which makes us forget. What protects you? A line of salt? From the time of ancient Greece to the present day, philosophers and scholars have argued man is essentially rational. I don’t happen to agree. If one observes and studies another person without having first studied oneself, how do we know whether out instruments are appropriately set? How do we know we are reliable? We have no proof. There’s only one way of gaining access to the truth, and that’s not to expect anything. If our intentions aren’t pure, we might end up creating monsters.”

(Red Lights)

Powaqqatsi

„Mother Earth. She lived, this world of trees and rivers and rocks with deep stone thoughts. She breathed, had feelings, dreamed dreams, gave birth, laughed, and grew contemplative for millennia. This great creature swimming in the sea of space. What a wonder thought the man, for he had never understood that the Earth was his mother, before this. He had never understood, before this that the Earth had a life of its own, at once part of mankind and quite separated from mankind, another with a life of her own.”

(Powaqqatsi)

Looper

 

„Then I saw it. A mother who would die for her son, a man who would kill for his wife, and an abandoned child headed the wrong path”

„I don’t want to talk about time travel because if we start talking about it then we’re going to be here all day talking about it, making diagrams with straws.”

„I work as a specialized assassin, in an outfit called the Loopers. When my organization from the future wants someone to die, they zap them back to me and I eliminate the target from the future. The only rule is: never let your target escape… even if your target is you.”

(Looper)