Arizona Dream (1993) quotes

Director
Emir Kusturica.

Cast
Johnny Depp.
Jerry Lewis.
Faye Dunaway.
Vincent Gallo.

A young New Yorker goes to Arizona where he finds freedom to both love and dream.

I wasn’t falling in love, because I never felt any weight, because I was flying in love for the first time in my life.
– Axel Blackmar

What do you think?
– Axel Blackmar
About what?
– Grace Stalker
About us kind of belonging together?
– Axel Blackmar
What about this lamp? You think Paul will like this lamp?
– Grace Stalker
Yea, he’ll-he’ll love it. What do you think?
– Axel Blackmar
I think two wrong don’t make a right.
– Grace Stalker
Meaning what?
– Axel Blackmar
Meaning us: two wrongs.
– Grace Stalker
What if we’re not? What if we’re two rights and everybody else is wrong?
– Axel Blackmar
Either way we’re gonna be screwed, Axel.
– Grace Stalker
But at least we can be screwed together.
– Axel Blackmar

I never thought it could happen, but love hit me like an elephant and I was thrown into a jungle of dreams.
– Axel Blackmar

If you and I were to die in a plane crash it wouldn’t matter, because our souls would keep on going and we would love each other from place to place – because it is infinity.
– Axel Blackmar

But what’s the point of breathing if somebody already tells you the difference between an apple and a bicycle? If I bite a bicycle and ride an apple, then I’ll know the difference.
– Axel Blackmar

My dad always said that work was like a hat you put on your head. And even if you didn’t have pants , you didn’t have to walk down the street ashamed of your ass as long as you had a hat…
– Axel Blackmar

I’m not going to die. I’m going to live forever until one day I’ll wake up and I’ll be a turtle.
– Grace Stalker

Most people think I count fish, but I don’t. I look at them. I look at their souls and read their dreams and then I let them into my dreams.
– Axel Blackmar