💬 Quotes

"Choosing to remain silent is a statement in itself. It is a powerful, impenetrable wall."

"We are all damaged, in one way or another. We are all broken. But we can learn to live with our broken pieces."

"Call me Ishmael."

"This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

"To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them."

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

"Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go."

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

"There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will."

"The film is not a theological tract; it is a visceral experience of the collision between the rational and the irrational."

"Horror cinema is a way of confronting the things we are too frightened to discuss in polite society."

"Friedkin’s approach was not to explain the evil, but to force the viewer to endure its presence."

"The Exorcist remains the ultimate religious horror movie precisely because it refuses to provide easy answers to the question of faith."

"By grounding the supernatural in the mundanity of modern medicine and scientific skepticism, the film makes the demonic manifestation all the more terrifying."

"It is a film about the disintegration of the family unit, with the devil acting as the catalyst for a much deeper, more secular rot."

"Always say less than necessary."

"When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir up all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity."

"Never outshine the master."

"Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit."

"The best deceivers utilize a broad cloud of false sincerity to camouflage their intentions."