Boyhood (2014) quotes

Director
Richard Linklater.

Cast
Ellar Coltrane.
Patricia Arquette.
Ethan Hawke. 

The life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.

You know how everyone’s always saying seize the moment? I don’t know, I’m kinda thinking it’s the other way around. You know, like the moment seizes us.
– Nicole
Yeah. Yeah, I know. It’s constant – -the moment. It’s just… It’s like it’s always right now, you know?
– Mason
Yeah.
– Nicole

Hey, grab that McCain sign, would you?
– Dad
Dad, isn’t that illegal?
– Mason
Just put it in the car. I’m being patriotic.
– Dad

Dad, there’s no real magic in the world, right?
– Mason
What do you mean?
– Dad
You know, like elves and stuff. People just made that up.
– Mason
Oh, I don’t know. I mean, what makes you think that elves are any more magical than something like a whale? Yoy know what I mean? What if I told you a story about how underneath the ocean, there was this giant sea mammal that used sonar and sang songs and it was so big that its heart was the size of a car and you could crawl through the arteries? I mean, you’d think that was pretty magical, right?
– Dad

Alright, don’t worry about it.
– Dad
I wish I could use the bumpers…
– Mason
You don’t want the bumpers, life doesn’t give you bumpers.
– Dad

Do you still love dad?
– Mason
I still love your father, but that doesn’t mean it was healthy for us to stay together.
– Mom
What if after we move he’s trying to find us, and he can’t?
– Mason

I just feel like there are so many things that I could be doing and probably want to be doing that I’m just not.
– Mason

I finally figured it out. It’s like when they realized it was gonna be too expensive to actually build cyborgs and robots. I mean, the costs of that were impossible. They decided to just let humans turn themselves into robots. That’s what’s going on right now. I mean, why not? They’re billions of us just laying around, not really doing anything. We don’t cost anything. We’re even pretty good at self-maintenance and reproducing constantly. And as it turns out, we’re already biologically programmed for our little cyborg upgrades. I read this thing the other day about how When you hear that ding on your inbox, you get like a dopamine rush in your brain. It’s like we’re being chemically rewarded for allowing ourselves to be brainwashed. How evil is that? We’re fucked.
– Mason

So what’s the point?
– Mason
Of what?
– Dad
I don’t know, any of this. Everything.
– Mason
Everything? What’s the point? I mean, I sure as shit don’t know. Neither does anybody else, okay? We’re all just winging it, you know? The good news is you’re feeling stuff. And you’ve got to hold on to that.
– Dad

I’ve spent the first half of my life acquiring all this stuff and now I’ll spend the second half getting rid of it!
– Mom

Goodbye, yard! Goodbye, crepe myrtle! Goodbye, mailbox! Goodbye, box of stuff Mommy won’t let us take with us but we don’t want to throw away. Goodbye, house, I’ll never like Mommy as much for making us move!
– Samantha
Samantha! Why don’t you say goodbye to that little horseshit attitude, okay, because we’re not taking that in the car.
– Mom

This is the worst day of my life.
– Mom
What are you talking about?
– Mason
I knew this day was coming. I just… I didn’t know you were going to be so fucking happy to be leaving.
– Mom
I mean it’s not that I’m that happy… what do you expect?
– Mason
You know what I’m realising? My life is just going to go. Like that. This series of milestones. Getting married. Having kids. Getting divorced. The time that we thought you were dyslexic. When I taught you how to ride a bike. Getting divorced… again. Getting my masters degree. Finally getting the job I wanted. Sending Samantha off to college. Sending you off to college. You know what’s next? Huh? It’s my fucking funeral! Just go, and leave my picture!
– Mom
Aren’t you jumping ahead by, like, 40 years or something?
– Mason
I just thought there would be more.
– Mom

Top of volume two, first four tracks. You’ve got “Band on the Run” into “My Sweet Lord” into “Jealous Guy” into “Photograph.” Come on! It’s like the perfect segue. You’ve got Paul who takes you to the party, George who talks to you about God, John is just “No, it’s about love and pain” and then Ringo who just says “Hey, can’t we enjoy what we have while we have it?”
– Dad