Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) - Quotes

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Quotes about Pink Floyd The Wall: [[Christopher Nolan; https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/interviews/christopher-nolan-showmans-odyssey-oppenheimer Christopher Nolan: a showman's odyssey] * ], as quoted in , by James Bell, 14 February 2024, Sight and Sound magazine, British Film Institute.

Quotes about Pink Floyd The Wall: [1983; 1982; [memory; [Dreams|dream; [w:Nicolas_Roeg|Nicolas Roeg] There were a number of different influences, some literary. Graham Swift’s novel Waterland was a book we had to read in school. It has multiple timelines, and the way it cuts between them and how effective that was, combining history with the present. I happened to read that around about the same time as I watched Alan Parker’s Pink Floyd: The Wall , which is a truly remarkable, impressionistic film. Like, what the fuck is that movie? It’s quite marvellous. The way he uses the production design, the different timelines, the intermingling of ], ], things like that, it was very influential on me. And the cinema of ], in particular, the editing rhythms and the way he used things other than narrative and chronological progression, that all started to click with me.

Pink's Wife: [''muffled, slowly growing more distinct''] Hello? Hello? Is there anybody in there?

Pink's Wife: [sic] Do you remember me? I'm the one from the registry office. (A register office in the UK is where couples can get married without any religious ceremony)

Mother: [lyrics] Hush now baby, baby, don't you cry.Mother's gonna make all of your nightmares come true.Mother's gonna put all of her fears into you.Mother's gonna keep you right here under her wing.She won't let you fly, but she might let you sing.Mama will keep baby cozy and warm.Ooooh babe, ooooh babe, oooooh babe,Of course Mama's gonna help build the wall.

Groupie: [While Pink watches [[Television|TV; [Guitar|guitars; Touches guitars; Pause; Pause; [water; Goes into the bathroom; Comes back out; Her voice begins echoing and fading] ], ignoring her] Oh, my God. What a fabulous room. Are all these your ]? God. This place is bigger than our whole apartment. You like the tube, huh? Can I get a drink of ]? Can I get you a drink of water? Oh, wow! Look at this tub! Wanna take a bath? What are you watching? Hello? Hello? Are you feeling okay?

Pink's Manager: [Discovers Pink's hotel room trashed, while Pink, who is due to perform, is unconscious; to Pink; Inaudibly, continunes to harangue the unconscious Pink as the medical team attempts to revive him] Fuck me! He's gone completely around the bleedin twist! You vicious bastard, you never did like me, did you? The boy's an asthmatic.

Teacher: An acre is the area of a rectangle

Teacher: We don't need no education

Teacher: We don't need no education

Teacher: But in town it was well known

Teacher: What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? Oh, poems, no less! Poems, everybody!

Teacher: When we grew up and went to school

Teacher: You! You! Yes, you! Stand still, laddie!

Pink: Is there anybody out there?

Pink: Stop! I wanna go home, take off this uniform, and leave the show. I'm waiting in this cell because I have to know... have I been guilty all this time?

Pink: [singing] Are there any queers in the theatre tonight? Get em up against the wall!That one in the spotlight, he don't look right! Get him up against the wall!And that one looks Jewish... and that one's a coon! Who let all this riff raff into the room?That one's smoking a joint! And that one's got spots! If I had my way, I'd have all of you shot!

Pink: [singing] I don't need no arms around meAnd I don't need no drugs to calm me.I have seen the writing on the wall.Don't think I need anything at all.No! Don't think I'll need anything at all.All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.All in all, you were all just bricks in the wall.

Pink: [singing] We don't need no educationWe don't need no thought controlNo dark sarcasm in the classroomTeacher, leave them kids aloneHey, teachers! leave them kids alone!All in all, it's just another brick in the wall.All in all, you're just another brick in the wall.

Pink: [singing] Daddy's flown across the oceanLeaving just a memoryA snapshot in the family albumDaddy, what else did you leave for me?Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me?All in all, it was just a brick in the wall.All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.