Jim Morrison citations

“Le cinéma ne dérive pas de la peinture, de la littérature, de la sculpture, du théâtre, mais d'une ancienne et populaire tradition de sorcellerie. C'est la manifestation contemporaine d'une longue histoire d'ombres, un ravissement de l'image qui bouge, une croyance en la magie. Son lignage est couplé depuis sa plus lointaine origine avec les prêtres et la sorcellerie, une convocation des spectres. Avec, au début, l'aide modeste du miroir et du feu. Les hommes ont conjuré des ombres et secrètes visites des régions enfouies de la pensée. Dans ces séances, les ombres sont des esprits qui éloignent le mal.”

“Tout jeu contient l'idée de mort.”

“Le cinéma est le plus totalitaire des arts. Toute énergie, toute sensation se fait sucer jusqu'au crâne, érection cérébrale, le crâne bouffi de sang.
Caligula souhaitait un cou unique pour tous ses sujets afin qu'il puisse décapiter un royaume d'un seul geste. Le cinéma est cet agent transformateur. Le corps n'existe que pour les yeux, il devient une tige sèche qui porte ces deux joyaux mous et insatiables.”

“Il est faux de penser que l'art ait besoin d'un spectateur pour être. Le film continue même sans yeux. Le spectateur ne peut exister sans le film. Qui assure son existence.”

“Tu peux jouir de la vie de loin. Tu peux regarder les choses mais ne pas les goûter. Tu peux caresser la mère seulement des yeux.”

“L'attrait du cinéma se trouve dans la peur de la mort.”

“La division des hommes en acteurs et spectateurs est le fait central de notre temps.”

“Tout film est dépendant des autres films et y renvoie. Le cinéma était une innovation, un jeu scientifique jusqu'à ce qu'un nombre suffisant d'œuvres ait été amassé, assez pour créer un autre monde intermittent, une mythologie puissante et infinie dans laquelle plonger à volonté.”

“It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.”

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”

“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”

“Money beats soul every goddamn time.”

“That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.”

“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”

“We're reaching for death
on the end of a candle
We're trying for something
that's already found us”

“Man, I'm sick of doubt.”

“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”

“No one here gets out alive.”

“I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.”

“Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god”

“I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then — whoosh, and I'm gone… and they'll never see anything like it ever again… and they won't be able to forget me — ever.”

“Drugs are a bet with your mind.”

“It’s like gambling, somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where you’re going to end up the next day. It could work out good, or it could be disastrous. It’s like the throw of the dice.”

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade for a role, you give up your ability to feel and in exchange put up a mask”

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”

“Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts”

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend”

“People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone”

“A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.”

“Indian, Indian what did you die for?
Indian says, nothing at all.”

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”

“Where's your will to be weird?”

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”

“You've seen your birth, your
life and death; you might recall
all of the rest — (did you
have a good world when you
died?) — enough to base
a movie on?”

“People are strange…”

“Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.”

“I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.”

“There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.”