“I don’t speak with economists never it’s a waste of time I will do an exception for you because you seem a bad economist.”.

Concursante (The Contestant, 2007). A movie by Rodrigo Cortes.
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Leon: “Will you smile?” Ninotchka: “Why?” Leon: “Well, just smile.” Ninotchka: “At what?” Leon: “At anything. At the whole ridiculous spectacle of life. At people being so serious, taking themselves pompously, exaggerating their own importance. If you can’t think of anything else to laugh at, you can laugh at you and me.” (From Wikiquote)

I love this woman.
Ninotchka (by Ernst Lubitsch, 1939).

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Bender: “I tried helping them. I tried not helping them but in the end I couldn’t do them any good. Do you think what I did was wrong?”

God: “Right and wrong are just words. What matters is what you do.
Being God isn’t easy, if you do too much, people get dependent.
And if you do nothing, they lose hope.
You have to use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket.
When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”

Godfellas: the transcript at the Internet Movie Script Database.
From Futurama, episode 52: Godfellas, written by Ken Keeler (2002).

“Great film. Perfect length. False people.”.

High Maintenance. A short film about our future. Directed byPhillip Van.
Above: Nicolette Krebitz, screenshot, detail.
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“When you fall asleep you’re unaware of sleeping until your awake. During last missing hours a whole other world comes alive. Welcome to the nightshift.”.

Cashback (the short)*, from Google Video; and Cashback, the movie*.
“I think that the film tells us that what we spend our lives looking for is often right in front of us.
And if we take the time to see things calmly, we find in us what we want or we find ways to obtain it.”.
(Sean Ellis)
Above: screenshot from the teaser trailer. Model: Irene Bagach.
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