Vanilla Sky
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Biography
Vanilla Sky is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film starring Tom Cruise as a magazine publisher who begins to question reality after being disfigured in a car crash. Written and directed by Cameron Crowe, who also produced with Cruise and Paula Wagner, it is an English-language remake of the 1997 Spanish film Open Your Eyes, which was written by Alejandro Amenábar and Mateo Gil.
"Primer on David Aames Senior. My father wasn't built for the 21st century. He never went to McDonald's, not once. He never watched television, and yet... his biggest magazine is still the TV Digest. He and my mother threw the grandest parties of the literary world. Ballooned. Jumped out of airplanes. He sought adventure. His autobiography is the manual... for every cutthroat publisher in New York City."
"I dug her completely. Some how I'd found the last semi-guy less girl in New York City."
"Isn’t that what being young is about, believing secretly that you would be the one person in the history of man that would live forever?"
"My dreams are a cruel joke. They taunt me. Even in my dreams, I'm an idiot who knows he's about to wake up to reality. If I could only avoid sleep. But I can't. I try to tell myself what to dream. I try to dream that I am flying. Something free. It never works..."
"That smile's gonna be the end of me."
"The little things... there's nothing bigger, is there?"
"Good. Because for a minute there I thought we were talking about A FUCKING MASK!!!"
"I lost you when I got in that car. I'm sorry."
"I remember. Somebody died. It was me."
"Look at us. I'm frozen, and you're dead. And I love you."
"Doc, once you've been driven off a bridge at 80 miles an hour, somehow you don't invite happiness in without a full body search."
"These? These are more than headaches. These are steel plates slicing through my every thought."
"I wanna wake up! Tech support! It's a nightmare! Tech support! Tech support!"
"I want to live a real life... I don't want to dream any longer."
"You're not blind. You're drinking Jack Daniels, and when you drink Jack, you start in with that... Frank Sinatra, she shot me down, give me a cigarette, "King of Sad" thing."
"A new form of me began to take shape. I planned my reemergence, like the Normandy invasion. (Sofia, Sofia...) I'll just say it - I did my homework. I read every memo. Thomas Tipp was right: People will read again."
"You keep the relationship casual, until the absolute breaking point. And then one evening or afternoon or morning, it could be months from now. Well, you know how it works"
"I don't care if God calls, I'm very, very busy."
"I am a pleasure delayer."
"I'll tell you in another life when we are both cats."
"I think she's the saddest girl to ever hold a martini."
"Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around."
"But I just think good things will happen, if you are a good person with a good attitude, don't you think?"
"Holy God. This is going to change my life in a zillion different ways. I must be nuts."
"I meant that to be your forehead."